From f6d61543a21954d6ca668c65ed71cfc617cc7349 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Gaiselmann <stefan.gaiselmann@materna.de>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 16:48:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added check for interactive shell to README.

---
 README.adoc | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 58891a6..4d17b83 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ Alternative way to include .sshrc by detecting SSH connection.
 [source,bash]
 ----
 # User specific aliases and functions
+
+# test if the prompt var is not set
+# See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/154395/running-scp-when-bashrc-of-remote-machine-includes-source-command
+if [ -z "$PS1" ]; then
+    # prompt var is not set, so this is *not* an interactive shell
+    return
+fi
+
 if [ -f ~/.sshrc ] && [ -z "$SSH_CLIENT" ]; then
     echo "Not a ssh connection"
 else