TTY(1)

Series 300 and 500 Release 5.2 Implementation

NAME

tty, pty − get the name of the terminal

SYNOPSIS

tty [ −s ]

pty [ −s ]

DESCRIPTION

Tty and pty print the path name of the user’s terminal. The −s option inhibits printing of the terminal path name, and is used to test just the exit code.

RETURN VALUE

0 Standard input is a terminal if tty was invoked or a pseudo-terminal if pty was invoked.

1 Standard input is not a terminal or pseudo-terminal.

2 Invalid options were specified.

DIAGNOSTICS

not a tty Standard input is not a terminal and −s was not specified in the tty command.

not a pty Standard input is not a pseudo-terminal and −s was not specified in the pty command.