Scanterm is a small linux utility to monitor your virtual terminals.
This would be well suited to a server which displays various running
programs on different virtual terminals.
To use, just specify a series of terminal numbers (the same as the
F-numbers when you press ALT-F?? to switch to them) to display:
You can also specify forwards and backwards ranges, or specify a
terminal multiple times:
Finally, you can alter the wait interval in 1/1000th second
increments with the -w switch:
Here, terminals 5,6,4 wait for 1 second, 8 for 10 seconds, and 1
for 5 seconds (the default).
Since this reads private devices, scanterm must be run as root.
(You can inspect the code yourself to convince yourself it does
nothing harmful!)
source./scanterm 1 5 9
./scanterm 1 3 1 3 4-7 1 3 10-8
./scanterm 1 -w1000 5 6 4 -w10000 8