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Re: Why is stdin always a pipe?

From: David Macek <david dot macek dot 0 at gmail dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:44:24 +0200
Subject: Re: Why is stdin always a pipe?
References: <CAJ+sA06u+pfPpTeFDQYaaT52c5_yz98i+MaTH28DCJoZkVc7=g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi.  I see this:

$ [[ -p /dev/stdin ]] && echo pipe || echo nopipe
nopipe
$ [[ -t /dev/stdin ]] && echo term || echo noterm
noterm


Am I missing something?  I tested various scenarios and stdin is never a pipe, neither a tty for me.

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David Macek

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