A console is generally a terminal in the physical sense that is by some definition the primary terminal directly connected to a machine. The console appears to the operating system as a …

Nov 30, 2018 · /dev/console exists primarily to expose the kernel’s console to userspace. The Linux kernel’s documentation on devices now says The console device, /dev/console, is the …

How can I scroll in bash using only the keyboard? If it's not possible in bash, are there any other shells that support this?

However, setting any of these modes in kernel option string, line vga=0x305, results in either pitch black text console, or screen filled by blinking color/bw dots. What is the 'modern', 'robust' way …

In BSD, you can use watch which snoops a given tty, e.g. watch /dev/pts/0 In Linux, it won't be possible if the process wasn't run under multiplexer before such as screen or tmux. See also: …

Aug 16, 2016 · Addressing a different comment: At least on my system (and in the screenshot shown in the question), all of the characters used by pstree are supplied in the 512-glyph font …

Oct 11, 2016 · I would like to display the contents of a text file on the command line. The file only contains 5-6 characters. Is there an easy way to do this?

Aug 10, 2017 · I have a serial port device that I would like to test using linux command line. I am able to use stty and echo for sending commands to serial port, but when device responds I …

I'm running linux clusters, mostly on SLES10. The servers are mostly blades, accessed via remote console. There is a real console in the server room, but switched off. I would like to …

I spend most of my time working in Unix environments and using terminal emulators. I try to use color on the command line, because color makes the output more useful and intuitive. What …