Re: Re: Detecting running from cron?

Not good, because that environment variable also (ususally) exists from the command line. Try this:

perl -e 'print "foo\n" if exists $ENV{_};'
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Best to set a variable in the crontab file, as mentioned below.

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Re: Re: Re: Detecting running from cron? by tadman (Prior) on Jan 23, 2001 at 23:33 UTC
It would seem that the '_' variable is a bash/sh thing, and as I use 'tcsh' for most of my work normally I didn't notice that. Good catch. chipmunk has the best approach, with setting an environment variable within your crontab.	[reply]