Can a bash script tell if it's being run via cron? Can a bash script tell if it's being run via cron? bash bash

Can a bash script tell if it's being run via cron?


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you can try "tty" to see if it's run by a terminal or not. that won't tell you that it's specifically run by cron, but you can tell if its "not a user as a prompt".

you can also get your parent-pid and follow it up the tree to look for cron, though that's a little heavy-handed.

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I had a similar issue. I solved it with checking if stdout was a TTY. This is a check to see if you script runs in interactive mode:

if [ -t 1 ] ; then     echo "interacive mode";else    #send mailfi

I got this from: How to detect if my shell script is running through a pipe?

The -t test return true if file descriptor is open and refers to a terminal. '1' is stdout.

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Why not have a command line argument that is -t for testing or -c for cron.

Or better yet:

-e=email@address.com

If it's not specified, don't send an email.

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