Detecting Pipe Using Bourne Shell
Leo de Wit
leo at philmds.UUCP
Sat Apr 8 20:01:28 AEST 1989
In article <18992 at adm.BRL.MIL> ifenn%ee.surrey.ac.uk at nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Ian Fenn) writes:
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|The only problem with this is that I cannot pipe the output from another
|program into it because it drops into the main menu and out again! Probably
|due to the test for arguments. Can anyone therefore tell me how to detect a
|pipe using Sh, so that the following will work? Or suggest another way
|round the problem?
if test -t 0
then
# stdin from terminal
else
# stdin not from terminal
fi
Leo.
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