Re: login shell?

On Jul 27, Bryan R Harris said:

Is there a way to determine in perl whether the current script was run from
a login shell or not?

As opposed to what, specifically? I'd say a good place to check is $ENV{SHELL}. If that's defined, chances are it was run from a shell. I would not expect it to be set from a web browser.

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