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Subject: [ale] Bash: How to determine if called from cron?
From: dad at datix.2y.net (David A. De Graaf)
Date: Mon Jun 27 09:35:53 2005
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:17:00AM -0400, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Does anyone know of an easy way for my script to determine if it's being 
> run from cron or from a user shell? 

Read about the 'tty' command.
Try this example script, both manually and via cron:

  ANS=`tty`
  echo ANS: $ANS

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	David A. De Graaf    DATIX, Inc.    Hendersonville, NC
	dad at datix.2y.net     www.datix.us

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