HOW do you tell KSH is interactive ?

[Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR]

As quoted from <5864 at iron6.UUCP> by yeates at motcid.UUCP (Tony J Yeates):
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| asg at sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) writes:
| >In article <1991Feb18.070424.6054 at noose.ecn.purdue.edu> you write:
| >> Certainly I don't want
| >>the aliases or something to executed for non-interactive shell, i.e.
| >>the shell spawned to interprete the ksh-scripts.  
| 
| Starting ksh scripts with the the -p option in your shell scripts might help,
| on Sun we use the first line:-
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case "x$-" in
x*i*)
    # interactive
    ;;
*)  # non-interactive
    ;;
esac

This has the advantage over [[ ]] that, should it be necessary, this is also
legal Bourne shell syntax.  (Why would you need this in Bourne shell?  For
"scripts" that you "." (that's "source" for you csh-noids :-) from interactive
and non-interactive shells and need different behavior from each.)

++Brandon
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