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THIS is the answer. A shell script in my environment with echo $TERM run from a $ prompt says "linux", but says "dumb" when run from cron.

RonJohn
– RonJohn

2023-04-14 16:50:02 +00:00
Commented Apr 14, 2023 at 16:50
In cron, $TERM is either empty or set to "dumb" depending on your distribution. See my answer for further detail, including a way to use $TERM that works for either of those two values that also adds $- for further safety.

Adam Katz
– Adam Katz

2023-05-17 18:50:36 +00:00
Commented May 17, 2023 at 18:50
Not really. There'd be nothing preventing me from running the script from my interactive session with TERM=dumb /path/to/script

Chris Davies
– Chris Davies

2025-01-20 10:36:13 +00:00
Commented Jan 20 at 10:36

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