Answer by Peter Cordes for Bash: How to determine whether terminal is opened...
If you're talking about one specific third-party app, then use an environment variable. Most programs will pass along the entire environment unchanged when they fork+exec new processes. So, start this...
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Here's my 2 cents. Just add it to your .bashrc. Replace terminals with your favorite terminals and export command with yours. run_in_terminal(){ local parent_command="$(ps --no-headers --pid $PPID -o...
View ArticleAnswer by Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy for Bash: How to determine whether terminal is...
As far as Visual Studio Code goes, there apparently is a way to set additional environment variables for the integrated terminal. So, set up Visual Studio to use this config:...
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You could probably do it by walking back up the ancestry of the shell and working out whether it was started by something that equates to "you", or another program. Get the shell's PID (process ID),...
View ArticleBash: How to determine whether terminal is opened by third-party app
I want my bash script (specifically my ~/.bashrc) to do something only if the terminal was opened by me directly, and do something else if it was opened through an app e.g. VS Code. How can I...
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