if ! [ -t 0 ] ; then
read var
fiI know what the result will be but don't understand the conditional test. I've never seen it before nor can I find the -t option in any shell scripting tutorial
rhesus303
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[ ] is a "shorthand"/"shell-builtin" for the command test. And, for reference, file-handle 0 is either standard out or standard in. I forget which and it has been years since I've had to worry about it.
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masijade
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[ ] is a "shorthand"/"shell-builtin" for the command test. And, for reference, file-handle 0 is either standard out or standard in. I forget which and it has been years since I've had to worry about it.
rhesus303
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Ah thanks. A quick glance at the man pages shows that -t checks if the file descriptor is open and associated with a terminal.
Fest3er
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Perhaps the '!' and the '[' should be swapped. Usually the 'not' works better if it's part of the test. :) Of course, shell scripting has become somewhat, mmm, different in the past 20 years, so it might just work the way you wrote it.
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