Thank you VERY much to everyone that responded - the winning solution
turned out to be a (-p STDIN) test for - you guessed it, a named pipe.
That simple solution eluded me and I thank James who replied to me
off-list for it and for not flaming my stupidity. ;)
Also thanks to Dale and Martin, bot
Schuyler Bishop wrote:
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I've googled this pretty extensively and searched the archives equally
vigorously and came up with the 'if (-f)', but neither that nor 'if (-t)
seem to ever return a 1 so that the loop is executed.
The file test operators need a file handle. The default is '_' which
If you can decide at command line time which type of
input to use, e.g. using | or a file, then why not
write your script to use GetOpts::Std
Then you can use the -w as usual, and create a new
switche (-f <$filename> for file) and no switch for
STDIN. Then in your script you can simply check for
t
Hello,
Long-time perl wanna-be-hacker, first time poster here.
This script is running on a Sunblade 100 running Solaris 9 and the current
sun version of perl(based on recommended patch clusters) - 5.6.1.
I've got a script where I'm trying to read a list of files and switches,
sometimes from and
