In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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. -- Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd. PC & Unix consultancy & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trumphurst.com/
