[olug] am I at the console?

[Theodore Katseres]

On 3/24/06, thelarsons3 at cox.net <thelarsons3 at cox.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want a shell script to check if it's being run at the console, so it can act differently than it would in a virtual/remote terminal.  Is this possible?  A portable (cross-Unix) solution would be great, but I'll take anything.

tty

Capture the output and check for /dev/pty
if that's true then its a remote console

Works for Linux and AIX

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Ted Katseres
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