Re: Standard .bashrc needs a minor fix

[Joachim Schmitz]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 09:30:20AM -0500, Chuck Remes wrote:
> > The standard .bashrc contains a line of code that precludes certain
> > scripts from executing. It has to do with the logic for checking if
> > the session is interactive. 
>
> There's no such thing as a "standard .bashrc", at least not from the
> point of view of a bash bug mailing list.  Files like .bashrc are
> supplied by the OS vendor, or created by the user.
>
> > 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

I'm doing it like this:

it [[ ${-#*i} = $- || ! -t 0 ]]
   # non-interactive stuff here
   ...
else
   # interactive stuff here
   stty ...
   ...
fi

bye, Jojo