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130 questions linked to/from What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'?
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Terminal vs bash? [duplicate]
I'm on a Mac but I think this is generally Unix-applicable.
I'm in the process of learning shell scripting and there's something I seem to be missing. When I'm in the ordinary terminal, I can use ...
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What is the concept behind "tty" in linux? [duplicate]
Where did the terminology "tty" come from in Linux?
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Terminal vs Terminal emulator [duplicate]
I am trying to clarify my understanding of terminal here.
Terminal is actually a device (keyboard+monitor). When in CLI mode, the input from your keyboard goes directly to shell and also displayed on ...
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What is tty within Linux? [duplicate]
My understanding of tty is is that its means "teletype writers" from the older days, where people had to get teletype writers in order to receive and input data into virtual terminals, my questions ...
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What exactly is terminal? What is shell? [duplicate]
I know about Linux terminal. I can also issue many advanced commands over terminal. But one simple concept is not clear to me.
What is terminal and how does it work?
I know about hardware which ...
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What is the difference between Virtual Terminal and Pseudo Terminal? [duplicate]
Is a Virtual Terminal the terminal that you get when you type Ctrl+Alt+F#, and which is represented by the file /dev/tty#.
While a Pseudo Terminal is a terminal that actually runs "inside" a tty, for ...
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Does TTY always get used when we open any terminal? [duplicate]
I have been trying to understand how the TTY device driver works on a Linux machine for a few days now and still can't wrap my head around the idea.
When we open a terminal to ssh to a server, I ...
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Computer terminal and virtual console [duplicate]
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What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'?
I was wondering what relations and differences are ...
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PseudoTerminal concept in Linux [duplicate]
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What is the exact difference between a ‘terminal’, a ‘shell’, a ‘tty’ and a ‘console’?
This question follows directly from another question of mine in this great forum. What ...
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Trying to understand how TTYs and PTYs work in CentOS 6.5? [duplicate]
I started to dig into the whole Linux pty and tty hell. I'm trying to understand how it works here in Linux so I was reading quite a lot of articles that covered this topic.
So far I know:
TTYs ...
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How TTY differs from an ordinary file? [duplicate]
I'm trying to understand ssh's -t option:
-t Force pseudo-terminal allocation. This can be used to execute arbitrary screen-
based programs on a remote machine, which can be ...
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How is sudo interrupted in xterm on Ctrl-C? [duplicate]
Please explain in detail (including tty related stuff) how is a sudo foreground process on a X terminal emulator actually killed on the Ctrl-C.
See the following example please:
$ sudo -u test_no_pw ...
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What really is bash? (or any linux shell) [duplicate]
I understand bash as a window where I can type commands to linux. Reading the wikipedia, I've learned that there were various shell applications throughout the history. First, I understood bash as ...
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is the shell a frontend to the terminal? [duplicate]
Is the shell only an addon to the terminal, so that a terminal daemon has to work in order to to start a shell as its frontend. What controll does the terminal exherts upon the shell?
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Does ssh give access to the virtual console, to a terminal emulator, or what? [duplicate]
As far as I've understood, a terminal emulator is a GUI-based program which gives me a terminal-like viewport and allows me to interact with it just like I'd do with a terminal, except that it has all ...
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