TTY(1)

📦 version 0.12.0, in arch rolling

💻 tty(1) — the "where am I even" command 💅

okay bestie, so this one lives in the General Commands Manual section 1, and it's genuinely one of the simplest little icons in the whole toolbox ✨

✨ NAME ✨

tty — literally just prints the file name of the terminal that's connected to standard input 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tty [OPTION]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what it does is: print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input. That's the whole vibe. No drama, no extra steps, no side quests 💖

Like, you run it, it tells you which terminal you're on. Main character energy but make it minimal 🌈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -s, --silent — print nothing, only return an exit status 🤫 like it says the quiet part silently and lets the exit code do the talking
  • -h, --help — Print help 🫶 your little "explain yourself pls" flag
  • -V, --version — Print version ⭐ for when you gotta know exactly what you're running

👑 VERSION 👑

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 — that's the one, no cap 🔥

ngl the whole page is short and that's the point — tty does one thing and it ate 💅

and that's it, that's the page 🧚 dated 2026-09-17, from the General Commands Manual, running version v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 — go off, bestie, go find out what terminal you're in 💜

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