Question

Apart from its use in redirection, /dev/tty can also be used as an argument to some commands.

(a) True

(b) False

I have been asked this question by my college professor while I was bunking the class.

My query is from Redirection and Pipes topic in chapter The Shell of Unix

Answer 1

The correct option is (a) True

To explain I would say: /dev/tty can be used as an argument to some UNIX commands. Because the terminal is also a file we can use the device name /dev/tty as an argument to some commands like tee. For example,