Console/SSH/X: How to tell?

[Dave Germiquet]

I'm wondering if you can use the $DISPLAY variable...

If the $DISPLAY variable is empty your in a shell.. if the $DISPLAY
variable has :0 or 0:0.1 you know you can open an xterminal window.

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Marc Lanctot<lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use pal for my calendaring now and I'd like my xterms to open up with
> the output from pal. However, if I add it to .bashrc, then when I try
> to copy things to/fro remotely scp fails because there is output
> generated by my .bashrc.
>
> So what I'd like to do is detect if the session is an xterm/console, or
> through interactive ssh.. and output the calendar in these cases but
> not in cases where I scp or execute a command remotely.
>
> Can I do this? If so, how?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marc
>
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