Re: Getting current terminal ID

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 05/13/05 

Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:42:56 +0200

In alt.os.linux skubik <shawn.kubik@gmail.com>:
> I'm writing a BASH script where I need to retrieve the current ID of
> the virtual terminal being currently used. That is, if I run the script
> from an xterm window, I would get a terminal id of 7-12, if I run it
> from a text-console terminal, I would get 1-6. I've searched around a
> bit but can't seem to find a way to do this. IS there a way to retrieve
> this ID?

Sure.;)

 man tty

Good luck 

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