On Dec 19, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Steven D. Majewski wrote: > I've got a small shell script that executes an applescript via > osascript > to set the terminal background & foreground colors ( looking them up > in > /usr/X11R6//lib/X11/rgb.txt if they are names rather than numbers. ) > > I would like to extend this script to work with iTerm. > > Any ideas on the best way to figure out whether Terminal.app or > iTerm.app > is the 'owner' of the tty where the shell script is executing ? > > The only way I can think of is using 'lsof' , and that seems like a > pretty > indirect route: > > $ tty > /dev/ttyp1 > > $ lsof -c Terminal | grep '/dev' > Terminal 238 sdm7g 0r VCHR 3,2 0t0 42135940 /dev/ > null > Terminal 238 sdm7g 1w VCHR 0,0 0t906 42136580 /dev/ > console > Terminal 238 sdm7g 2w VCHR 0,0 0t906 42136580 /dev/ > console > Terminal 238 sdm7g 11u VCHR 5,1 0t2701 42376836 /dev/ > ptyp1 > > > The shell's tty and Terminal.app's pty are the slave/master pair of > pseudo > terminal devices -- different names, but I'm guessing the last > digits will > always match up. > > > Any other ideas ? > > -- Steve Majewski / UVA Alderman Library greetings Just a thought; i do this with my ssh connections do shell script " whoami " root scan ps -aux for the tty or process and it will list the user connections. ps -aux | grep ssh root 10310 0.0 -0.1 30316 1100 ?? S 11:46AM 0:00.08 / usr/sbin/sshd -i another is as the user ps the user processes. example. nc1-100:~ drfoo$ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 15450 ttys000 0:00.01 -bash 15459 ttys001 0:00.01 -bash 15504 ttys001 0:00.39 ssh -l root mail2 or something like that. man ps for more ideas.