Re: shell script: How to determine if I'm in the background?

[Jaume Guasch <jaume.guasch@psi.ch>]

Sorry all of you.

This snip is from the info page (Bash -> Interactive Shells -> Is this
Shell Interactive? ): 

Jaume Guasch <jaume.guasch=QlBsmsa8rgI@public.gmane.org> writes:

> 
> "To determine within a startup script whether or not Bash is running
> interactively, test the value of the `-' special parameter.  It
> contains `i' when the shell is interactive.  For example:
> 
>      case "$-" in
>      *i*)	echo This shell is interactive ;;
>      *)	echo This shell is not interactive ;;
>      esac
> "
> 


Best regards,

Jaume

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