Linux for Programmers and Users

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The tty utility identifies the name of your terminal (Figure 4-31).

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Figure 4-31. Description of the tty command.
Utility: tty tty displays the pathname of your terminal. It returns zero if its standard input is a terminal; otherwise, it returns 1.

In the following example, my login terminal was the special file "/dev/pts/1":

$ tty ...display the pathname of my terminal. /dev/pts/1 $ _

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