On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That looks promising... thanks :-)
Try:
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 10:49 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
> How can I tell, from a Korn shell script, if the script is running in
> a vi sub-shell?
>
> I have a script that has a problem when run from a vi subshell, and
> I'd like to check for that condition and just issue an error message.
> (I know that's not the solution to the problem, but the thing that
> fails is being replaced, so this is a temporary "fix")
ls -l /proc/`cat /proc/$$/status|grep PPid|cut -f2`/exe
and work from there.
That looks promising... thanks :-)