topic Set TERM Value via Script in Operating System - HP-UX

Set TERM Value via Script

george_114 — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:29:11 GMT

Please help me, I am newbie in Unix.
I have a case when i execute command tty on console:
$tty
/dev/tty1 or /dev/tty2 or etc

And when i execute command tty on client machine:
$tty
/dev/pts/0 or /dev/pts/1 or etc

How to make a script that can set $TERM in two conditions:
if tty=/dev/tty* then set $TERM=vt100
else set $TERM=ansi

Thanks in advance for your help.

Re: Set TERM Value via Script

Ernesto Cappello — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:42:40 GMT

#!/bin/sh

if [ tty = "/dev/tty*" ]
then
set $TERM=vt100
else
set $TERM=ansi
fi

Regards, Ernesto.

Re: Set TERM Value via Script

Elmar P. Kolkman — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:48:26 GMT

Nice... 2 threads for the same problem.

The answer given won't work, because if the test done and the fact that your shell variable won't be propagated to your current shell.

A working version is in threadId=238205...