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Re: Bashrc distinguish between mintty and x-windows xterm
==== Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:32AM -0400 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Andrew Hancock sent the following at Friday, May 25, 2012 12:42 AM
> >Barry, it works flawlessly. Thanks immensely!
>
> But I forgot to export ThisTerm, otherwise it is always unset when
> a subshell is launched.
Access to the /proc file system is fast, so you could forgo the
variable and access it directly:
case "$(< /proc/$PPID/exename)" in
*/xterm) echo "This is an xterm" ;;
*/mintty) echo "This is a mintty" ;;
esac
I don't have a need for this, but I had wondered how I would do it
if I did. So I'm glad you posted this.
-Ken Jackson
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