centos man page for consoletype

Query: consoletype

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CONSOLETYPE(1)						      General Commands Manual						    CONSOLETYPE(1)

NAME
consoletype - print type of the console connected to standard input
SYNOPSIS
consoletype [stdout] [fg]
DESCRIPTION
consoletype prints the type of console connected to standard input, and checks whether the console connected to standard input is the cur- rent foreground virtual console. With no arguments, it prints vt if console is a virtual terminal (/dev/tty* or /dev/console device if not on a serial console), serial if standard input is a serial console (/dev/console or /dev/ttyS*) and pty if standard input is a pseudo ter- minal.
RETURN VALUE
consoletype when passed no arguments returns 0 if on virtual terminal 1 if on serial console 2 if on a pseudo terminal. When passed the stdout argument, consoletype returns 0 in all cases, and prints the console type to stdout. When passed the fg argument, consoletype returns 0 if the console connected to standard input is the current virtual terminal 1 otherwise.
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