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Test for an interactive shell in Bash
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test_if_interactive_shell.sh
if [[ -z $PS1 ]] # no prompt?
### if [ -v PS1 ] # On Bash 4.2+ ...
then # non-interactive
...
else # interactive
...
fi
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