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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
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Subject: Re: which vt?
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hmmm writes:
>
> can a SH script figure out what vt it is being viewed on?

Sure.  tty(1) tells you just that:

$ tty
/dev/ttyp7

This is a pty, of course, but it works just as well on vts.  If it's
not on a tty, you get things like:

$ rsh allegro tty
not a tty

Greg