suse man page for isserial

Query: isserial

OS: suse

Section: 8

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NAME
Isserial - determines if the underlying tty of stdin is a serial line
SYNOPSIS
iserial [< /dev/console]
DESCRIPTION
iserial determines if the underlying character device of the current stdin is a serial line. This can be used on /dev/console as current character device to check if the console is a serial line. The exit status of iserial is 0 if stdin is a serial line otherwise not.
FILES
/dev/console the system console.
SEE ALSO
console(4), tty(4),
COPYRIGHT
2003 Werner Fink, 2003 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> 3rd Berkeley Distribution Sep 05, 2003 SHOWCONSOLE(8)
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