tty - Man Page

print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

tty [OPTION]...

Description

Print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input.

-s,  --silent,  --quiet

print nothing, only return an exit status

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Author

Written by David MacKenzie.

Reporting Bugs

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

See Also

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/tty>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) tty invocation'

Referenced By

termios(3), ttyname(3).

January 2024 GNU coreutils 9.4