MacOS – Get terminal application name from shell

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I am used to my osascript aliases. In particular, I have nx for opening new tab and closing the old one.

However, my scripts use application name to send keyboard signals to it. Instead of writing it all many times i use my own variable term that contains terminal application name (it is always term=iTerm, no matter what terminal I'm using).

How do I fetch the terminal emulator's name I am entering command line with?

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TERM_PROGRAM is set by both Terminal and iTerm:

TERM_PROGRAM=iTerm.app
TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal

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It's very strange that you say this, because I only get one window open... It would be interesting to see how the applications are launching the Terminal. IF they launch it by opening Terminal, then opening a new window using Applescript or something, then you would expect to see two new windows, but if they just run a bash script, then it should just open a single window.

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