On 01 August 2006 20:20, John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon, > > In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being > run from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X?
See this script by the name "strangename": #! /bin/sh ps ax | grep strangename If run in a terminal under X it will output something like:# 20516 pts/3 R+ 0:00 grep strangename Please note the "pts". Run from a virtual text terminal, that will be something like "tty4". Instead of actually displaying the output, you can analyse it within your script. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- [email protected] mailing list
