`$TTYIDLE` – TTY idle time

$TTYIDLE contains the idle time of the associated TTY in seconds if there’s a TTY available.

Examples

Print TTY and idle time

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echo $TTY
sleep 5
echo TTY idle time: ${TTYIDLE}s

Output:

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/dev/pts/3
TTY idle time: 5s

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