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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: correct isatty usage
Message-ID: <2096@solo11.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 24 Feb 89 12:46:30 GMT
References: <18432@adm.BRL.MIL> <1161@tikal.Teltone.COM>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1161@tikal.Teltone.COM> dave@tikal.UUCP (David Karr) writes:
\if ({`test -t 0`}) then

	if ({ test -t 0 }) then
or
	if { test -t 0 } then

You want the exit status instead of the standard output from test.
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