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From: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Piping into Shell scripts
Message-ID: <2283@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Feb 90 16:58:55 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex
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Is there any way of getting a Shell script (C or Bourne) to recognise
whether it is receiving input from a pipe?

My script includes something like this:

	echo "Please enter message text and then enter a CTRL D"
	cat > foo
	etc.etc.

In some circumstances I might want to pipe text into the script, so I
don't want it to echo the prompt message.  I have RTFM (hope I haven't
missed something).  Can anyone help?

-- 
Andy Clews, Computing Service, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, England
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