[ale] Bash: How to determine if called from cron?

[Christopher Woodfield]

I generally write my scripts to accept a --cron argument for this  
purpose.

-C

On Jun 27, 2005, at 12:17 AM, Christopher Bergeron wrote:

> Does anyone know of an easy way for my script to determine if it's  
> being run from cron or from a user shell?
> I have a feeling theres an easy way to do this, but I'm drawing a  
> complete blank right now.  I'm looking at my Environment vars, but  
> I'm not sure what gets set by Cron when it runs a script.
>
> Any ideas are much appreciated...
>
> Kind regards,
> CB
>
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