Re: Standard .bashrc needs a minor fix

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 07 May 2010 08:49:26 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 09:30:20AM -0500, Chuck Remes wrote:
> > e.g.
> > [ -z "$PS1" ] && return
> 
> That's certainly *not* how I'd write that check.  If the goal is to
> protect a block of commands from running when the shell is invoked
> without a terminal, then I'd prefer this:
> 
> if [ -t 1 ]; then
>     # All your terminal commands go here
>     stty kill ^u susp ^z intr ^c
>     ...
> fi

the somewhat common test ive seen in different distros to detect interactive 
shells is:
if [[ $- != *i* ]] ; then
        # shell is non-interactive
        return
fi
-mike

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