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Joshua Strot
Joshua Strot

Reputation: 2541

echo the type of terminal being ran

I'm trying to echo the type of the current terminal being ran. For instance If I was running konsole then it would echo konsole. I've tried running 

echo $TERM

But that prints out xterm every time. Is there a better and more accurate way of doing this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 433

Answers (1)

devnull
devnull

Reputation: 123608

pstree can help.

$ pstree -s $$
init───gnome-terminal───bash───pstree

The -s option shows parents of the specified process.

In bash (and Bourne-shell variants), $$ denotes the PID of the current shell.

Another invocation (while running from xterm returns):

$ pstree -s $$
init───xterm───bash───pstree

Specifying the -A option makes pstree use ASCII characters so that you can parse the output easily:

$ pstree -A -s $$ 
init---gnome-terminal---bash---pstree

Upvotes: 6

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