On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:06:11PM -0400, Bob Showalter wrote:
> You might use -t to see if STDIN is a tty, but that wouldn't work for
>
> $ cat >sq.sh
> squareroot 100
> $ sh sq.sh # STDIN is a tty, but should I read input?
I'm not seeing the purpose behind this example. You're effectively invoking
the command from the command-line, but doing it through the extra step of a
shell script. Why is checking for a tty on STDIN invalidated by this?
Michael
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