July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
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c ASCII character or backslash escape.
dsize
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fsize
Floating point, with size bytes per integer.
o Octal, with size bytes per integer.
u Unsigned decimal, with size bytes per integer.
x Hexadecimal, with size bytes per integer.
openvt
openvt [options] [--] [command] [arguments]
Locate the first available virtual terminal (VT) and run command
with any arguments given. If no command is specified, the shell
$SHELL is started.
Options
-- Indicates the end of openvt options. Required before the
command name to pass options to the command.
-c vt
Use the specified VT number instead of the first available. You
must have write access to vt.
-e Execute command without forking. For use in /etc/inittab,
rather than on the command line.
-l Run the command as a login shell, prepending a dash (-) to
the command name.
-s Switch to the new VT when the command is started and make
it the current VT.
-u Determine the owner of the current VT, and log in as that
user. You must be root to use this option, which is also suit-
able for calling by init. Don’t use with -l.
-v Verbose mode.
-w Wait for the command to complete. If used with -s, switch
back to the controlling terminal when ...
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