On 12:04:35 Dec 06, Bharathi Subramanian wrote:
One Day One GNU/Linux Command
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chvt -- CHange foreground Virtual Terminal.
Summary:
In GNU/Linux OS, be default, 6 virtual text mode console terminals
will be running. User can switch between this terminals using Left
Side Ctrl + Alt + FunKey(1 - 6).
chvt command is also used to switch between this terminals. It can
be used in shell scripts.
Examples:
$ chvt 1 -- Switch from current terminal to /dev/tty1.
$ chvt 2 -- Switch from current terminal to /dev/tty2.
Read: man chvt
TIP: Screen Dump in Text console.
# sudo cat /dev/vcs2 > scrdump.txt -- Take the screen dump of
/dev/tty2 in scrdump.txt file.
