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From: luj@gus17.ecn.purdue.edu (Jun Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: HOW do you tell KSH is interactive ?
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Date: 28 Feb 91 18:38:09 GMT
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In article <1991Feb26.041034.15149@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes:
>You could test to see if stdin is connceted to a tty!
>
>[ -t 0 ] && echo interactive

Incorrect. You can easily see this by putting this line in a script file.

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