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| author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-19 23:51:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-19 23:51:20 +0000 |
| commit | cccc5902e13126d87ede30dba5dac51c760bd28d (patch) | |
| tree | 0fe7815b70b4b5bb2b82427b29d50eb8f88321a6 | |
| parent | 17b8576a41c8b378276448f7792119ebc5efd033 (diff) | |
An even nicer smart COL and WCOL bit :-)
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@814 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter07/functions.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter07/functions.xml b/chapter07/functions.xml index 15bda9133..748be6fd7 100644 --- a/chapter07/functions.xml +++ b/chapter07/functions.xml @@ -27,8 +27,11 @@ the following command: if [ -z "$COLUMNS" ] then # Get the console device if we don't have it already - test -z "$CONSOLE" && CONSOLE=/dev/console - + # This is ok by the FHS as there is a fallback if + # /usr/bin/tty isn't available, for example at bootup. + test -x /usr/bin/tty && CONSOLE=`/usr/bin/tty` + test -z "$CONSOLE" && CONSOLE=/dev/console + # Get the console size (rows columns) SIZE=$(stty size < $CONSOLE) |