Thank you Cris and Kurtis -- For this project I am going with the switch
option -- but I have other programs that I am going to replace the
os.Getpid and os.Getppid trick with go-isatty.
On Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 3:22:29 PM UTC-4 Chris Burkert wrote:
> Hi, there are cases when this does not work. I tend to use a flag like
> -batch or -noninteractive to trigger the correct behavior from within
> scripts. Less magic, more control.
>
> Rich <rma...@gmail.com> schrieb am Do. 8. Juni 2023 um 20:19:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a program I am writing that stops and asks the user for input, in
>> this case it's a passphrase used to encrypt output.
>>
>> I want the program to also be able to be used in a script, and if in a
>> script use a predefined value as the passphrase. What I'd like to know is
>> how to detect if running in a script or not. I've tried something like
>> this:
>> runPid := os.Getpid()
>> parPid := os.Getppid()
>> val := runPid - parPid //normally I check if runPid is > parPid in my
>> code.
>> if val < 20 {
>> fmt.Println("Not running in a script")
>> }
>> This works, but only if the script ran quickly. Wondering if there is a
>> better way to do this?
>>
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