tty-restart

A safe and flexible Bash script to restart a TTY console session using another TTY.

Features

• Restart a frozen or unresponsive TTY
• Automatically finds a free alternative TTY
• Supports manual override
• Comes with a man page

Installation

git clone https://github.com/LassaInora/tty-restart.git
cd tty-restart
./install.sh

Usage

tty-restart            # Restart current TTY using available alternate
tty-restart 2          # Restart tty2 using another TTY
tty-restart 2 5        # Restart tty2 using tty5
tty-restart --help     # Show help

License

GPLv3