Console/SSH/X: How to tell?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Marc Lanctot wrote:
>
> 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?

if [ -t 0 ] ## if connected to a terminal
then
   : ...
fi

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