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How can I identify the current terminal emulator from a bash script?

I've got a script that will open a new tab in the OS X Terminal application and I'm trying to add support for iTerm2. Unfortunately, the methods to open tabs in the two terminal emulators are different.

How could I tell which of the two is being used, or is open, to conditionally run the correct script?

Solution

  • I'm not sure how to tell iTerm and iTerm2 apart, but check the $TERM_PROGRAM envar. For me (Mac OS X 10.7), it returns Apple_Terminal for Terminal.app, and iTerm.app for iTerm2.