
What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty ...
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 …
What is `/dev/console` used for? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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 to scroll in a terminal using keyboard? - Unix & Linux Stack …
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?
Can I change the font of the text-mode console? - Unix & Linux …
Sep 28, 2019 · In Debian, you can also run dpkg-reconfigure -plow console-setup to be prompted for the various console settings and pick them from menus. Edit - I put together a small page …
How can I enable UTF-8 support in the Linux console?
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 …
Where can I get additional *console* (ie. virtual-terminal) fonts? Or ...
Jun 8, 2024 · 0 Where can I get/download additional Console / Virtual-Terminal (on F1 through F6) fonts - especially larger ones? I'm here talking about the font that can be set with the …
Save all the terminal output to a file - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Is there some way of saving all the terminal output to a file with a command? I'm not talking about redirection command > file.txt Not the history history > file.txt, I need the full terminal...
How can I display the contents of a text file on the command line?
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?
Disable screen blanking on text console - Unix & Linux Stack …
Apr 25, 2011 · 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 …
How to connect to a serial port as simple as using SSH?
$ serial /dev/ttyS0 I know I can cat the output from /dev/ttyS0 but only one way communication is possible that way, from the port to the console. And echo out to the port is just the same but …