Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How can I tell if STDIN is connected to a terminal?

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Re: STDIN connectivity
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 05, 2009 at 06:13 UTC

    I think the following code will help you

     if (-t STDIN) {

    print "stdin is connected";
} else {
    print "stdin is not connected";
}

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