Determine If Shell Input is Coming From the Terminal or From a Pipe

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 11, 2010 8:22 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By Mitch Frazier
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Working on a little script the other day I had the need to determine if the input to the script was coming from a pipe or from the terminal. Seems like a simple enough thing to determine but nothing jumped immediately to mind and a quick internet search didn't help much either. After a bit of pondering I came up with two solutions: the stat command and using information from the proc file system.

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