[olug] am I at the console?

Dave Weis djweis at internetsolver.com
Sat Mar 25 00:58:51 UTC 2006


run 'tty', if it's /dev/pts/ it's remote, if it's /dev/ttyS* it serial, 
otherwise it's probably local.

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>

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