UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello,
I am fairly new to UNIX. I ran command tty on my shell prompt and it return me /dev/console.

I was reading in the book that normally output of tty command is tty01 , tty02 or so on.

My question is this is the file for my monitor? UNIX called it Terminal or Workstation?

What is this file's extension ? and what is in this file cosole file?

Can I read the contents of console file?

Thanks for any response.

Abid Malik
Raligh, NC

If you had been on system A and used ssh/telnet/rlogin to go to system B and tried that command, you would have gotten the expected result.

Since you were on the console of the system, /dev/console was returned. It is, simply, the 'terminal' associated with the monitor attached directly to the server.

You can find more information by reading the man pages for the following commands and then trying those commands (you should always have an understanding of what a command will do before attempting to use it).

$ man file
$ man ls
$
$ ls -l /dev/console
$ file /dev/console

Thanks RTM,
But you did not tell me what is in this file? Can I view this file?

AM

No, I didn't tell you what is in the file - but - I did give you commands to check out so you can find out what's in the file and if you can 'view it'. Consider this a educational experience.

Thanks RTM,
I have got it now.

AM