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   Bit Twister to herman.viaene@invalid.be.invalid   
   Re: How to test for session in a script?   
   01 Nov 12 11:50:16   
   
   From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:20:34 +0100, herman.viaene@invalid.be.invalid wrote:   
   >   
   > Now I wrote in my script   
   >   
   > if [ "DISPLAY" == ":0" ];   
   > then .......   
   > fi   
   >   
   > But apparently nothing is done, so the if condition always evaluates to   
   > false????   
   > I'm not experienced in this game, so what's wrong here?   
      
   You may want to bookmark http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html   
      
   For starters you did not precede DISPLAY with a dollar sign.   
      
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