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6 chvt - change foreground virtual terminal
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9 chvt [option...] N
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12 The command chvt N makes /dev/ttyN the foreground terminal. (The cor‐
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18 -V, --version
19 print program version and exit;
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21 -h, --help
22 show this text and exit.
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