[Eug-lug] No value for $TERM

[Bob Miller]

Allen Brown wrote:

> I will try using a conditional like this:
> 
> if [ -n "${PS1-}"  -a  -n "${TERM-}"  -a  "${TERM-}" != "dumb" ]; then
>   All terminal related stuff such as stty and tputs
> fi

You can always add temporary debug output to /etc/bashrc thus.

echo TERM is "$TERM" >&2

That prints on std error, not std output.

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