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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Novice question
Keywords: redirected input
Message-ID: <13275@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Jul 90 14:04:39 GMT
References: <2100@cernvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2100@cernvax.UUCP> peterb@cernvax.UUCP (peter beckmann) writes:
>
> Now i have a question: if the user generates input from a file or a pipe
> ,e.g. Prog < some.stuff, is there a way to figure out if the
> input is coming NOT from the terminal. (i want to disable the
> prompting in this case).

type "man 3 isatty"...

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