Re: Checking for STDIN

STDIN is for reading, a logfile usually for writing. Do you really want to read from the logfile ?

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Re^2: Checking for STDIN by dbmathis (Scribe) on Jul 30, 2008 at 02:05 UTC
I have a perl script that at the moment has a command line option -logfile <file> where it gets input by reading the <file> into the script. I would like to be able to check to see if stdin is being piped into my file so that I can change the flow of my script and get my input for the pipe instead. When the -t option is used within a cron job the -t test evalutes to false or in my case it would make my script appear to be having input piped to it when in fact in my cron job I have -logfile <file> specified. Make sense?	[reply]
Re^3: Checking for STDIN by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 30, 2008 at 02:22 UTC
Sounds like what you actually want to do is check of -logfile was specified.	[reply]
Re^4: Checking for STDIN by dbmathis (Scribe) on Jul 30, 2008 at 02:38 UTC
I think you are right. Might be the only way.	[reply]
Re^5: Checking for STDIN by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 30, 2008 at 09:14 UTC
Re^6: Checking for STDIN by dbmathis (Scribe) on Jul 30, 2008 at 13:14 UTC
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