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From: David Macek <david.macek.0@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Why is stdin always a pipe?
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e61f4fcb-96cd-699b-85b8-314f1ff96e2e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+sA06u+pfPpTeFDQYaaT52c5_yz98i+MaTH28DCJoZkVc7=g@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi.  I see this:

> $ [[ -p /dev/stdin ]] && echo pipe || echo nopipe
> nopipe
> $ [[ -t /dev/stdin ]] && echo term || echo noterm
> noterm

Am I missing something?  I tested various scenarios and stdin is never a pipe, neither a tty for me.

-- 
David Macek


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  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-20 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-20 13:17 João Eiras
2018-07-20 14:52 ` David Macek [this message]
2018-07-20 15:12   ` João Eiras
2018-07-21  0:59     ` Brian Inglis
2018-07-21  1:59       ` Heavenly Avenger
2018-07-21  2:31         ` João Eiras

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