Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

[D-Man <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:51:06AM -0400, Daniel Patrick 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.

Based on your examples there, $TERM might be helpful.  For example in
my .cshrc on the school's Solaris box I have

if ( "$TERM" == "linux" )
    bash && exit
end

so when I login from my linux box (console) I automatically get bash
and I don't have to exit csh after I exit from bash.

-D