Re: a 'who called me?' variable?
In article <[🔎] 200107191551.f6JFpfe19191629@mail1.ats.rochester.edu>, Dan
Berdine wrote:
> Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell where
> bash is running from? For example, is there a variable I can test in
> my .bashrc to tell whether I am running remotly, from a tty, from
> konsole, an xterm, etc.? I'v looked at the Advanced Scripting HOWTO,
> but the only thing that looked promising was "$BASH_ENV" which seems to
> be empty.
The tty command might help a bit (it says what port you are connected to).
$TERM will tell you what kind of terminal Linux thinks you have.
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