Re: Script knowing if in screen / screen window correponding to tty

[Sami Samhuri]

* It was Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:16:43PM -0400 when Buddy Burden said:
> Guys,
> 
> Been using screen for many years now and find it indispensible.  I have 
> two minor questions (let me know if you think I should have broken this 
> up into two separate posts).
> 
> 1) Is there a way for a script to tell whether it's running inside 
> screen?  I have a script that really should be run inside screen.  I 
> don't want to just fire up a screen automatically, because the person 
> might already be running it.  But the person forgets a lot too, so it 
> would be nice to be able to flash a reminder to them, e.g. "Not running 
> inside screen; continue anyway?".  Is this possible?

In addition to what Jason said, within screen the environment variable
TERM is set to "screen".

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Sami Samhuri

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