Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: cleanup script needed Message-ID: <1163@auspex.UUCP> Date: 13 Mar 89 21:30:04 GMT References: <15659@oberon.USC.EDU> <9793@smoke.BRL.MIL> <80@torsqnt.UUCP> <3256@ttrdc.UUCP> Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 9 >it will say something like > >foo/bar.dvi: 444 mode? > >and then read a line from stdin. But the 4.3BSD and S5R3 ones appear not to do so if the standard input isn't a tty, so if they're reading from the pipe in question, they won't ask.