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

[Phil!Gregory]

* Sami Samhuri <address@hidden> [2004-07-09 12:55 -0700]:
> In addition to what Jason said, within screen the environment variable
> TERM is set to "screen".

There is an interesting subtlety here, in that $TERM crosses host
boundaries (ssh, telnet, etc.), but $STY does not.  I've used this fact to
distinguish between "running in a screen anywhere" and "running in a
screen on the same host as this process".

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