Dr Andrew Scott G7VAV

MBCS, MIET, Member ACM, Member IEEE

Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
and Communications

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Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom

FGCONSOLE

Section: Linux User's Manual (1)
Updated: 14 Feburary 2002
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fgconsole - print the number of the active VT.

fgconsole [--help|--version|--next-available]

If the active Virtual Terminal is /dev/ttyN, then prints N on standard output.

If the console is a serial console, then "serial" is printed instead.

--next-available: Will show the next unallocated virtual terminal. Normally 6 virtual terminals are allocated, with number 7 used for X; this will return "8" in this case.

Under devfs, the consoles are in /dev/vc/N. devfsd may maintain symlinks for compatibility.

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