RE: shell script: How to determine if I'm in the background?
>I'd very much like to hear from anybody who might have faced the same
>problem and learn of possibly simpler alternative solutions. I enclose
>the code below.
While an interesting problem to be sure, it seems like a solution begging
for a question. Why don't you just add an argument flag that when present
tells your application to go ahead without input, and then add that flag to
your cron job? Or extract the critical parts out into functions and then
write different wrapper scripts? Seems like much simpler alternatives to
me.
-i
ianw@ieee.org
http://www.wienand.org
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