On 2018-07-20 07:17, João Eiras wrote: >>> $ [[ -p /dev/stdin ]] && echo pipe || echo nopipe >>> nopipe > > Interesting, it's always a pipe for me. What about ls ? > > $ ls -l /dev/stdin > prw------- 1 user None 0 Jun 4 15:54 /dev/stdin
Are you using a terminal that does not provide a console interface? That is a pipe; Cygwin terms look like this: $ ll -go /dev/std*; ll -go /proc/self/fd/[012]; ll -go /dev/pty? lrwxrwxrwx 1 15 May 14 2013 /dev/stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 15 May 14 2013 /dev/stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 15 May 14 2013 /dev/stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Jul 20 08:18 /proc/self/fd/0 -> /dev/pty0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Jul 20 08:18 /proc/self/fd/1 -> /dev/pty0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Jul 20 08:18 /proc/self/fd/2 -> /dev/pty0 crw--w---- 1 136, 0 Jul 20 08:18 /dev/pty0 crw--w---- 1 136, 1 Jul 20 08:18 /dev/pty1 $ for fd in 0 1 2 3; do test -t $fd; echo fd $fd term $?; done fd 0 term 0 fd 1 term 0 fd 2 term 0 fd 3 term 1 $ for f in /dev/{std*,pty?}; do test -p $f; echo file $f pipe $?; done file /dev/stderr pipe 1 file /dev/stdin pipe 1 file /dev/stdout pipe 1 file /dev/pty0 pipe 1 file /dev/pty1 pipe 1 where ptys are terms and are not pipes. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple