Revisions to Common function to handle piped stdin and positional arguments in bash script

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edited Apr 28, 2023 at 13:57

To avoid waiting for input when there's no pipe, test it before reading:
[ -p /dev/stdin ] && read PIPEIN
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[ -p /dev/stdin ] && read PIPEIN

Tested on Ubuntu's Bash 5.

To avoid waiting for input when there's no pipe, test it before reading:
[ -p /dev/stdin ] && read PIPEIN
Tested on Ubuntu's Bash 5.

To avoid waiting for input when there's no pipe, test it before reading:

[ -p /dev/stdin ] && read PIPEIN

Tested on Ubuntu's Bash 5.

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edited Apr 28, 2023 at 13:52

To avoid waiting for input when there's no pipe, test it before reading:
[ -p /dev/stdin ] && read PIPEIN
Tested on Ubuntu's Bash 5.

To avoid waiting for input when there's no pipe, test it before reading:
[ -p /dev/stdin ] && read PIPEIN

To avoid waiting for input when there's no pipe, test it before reading:
[ -p /dev/stdin ] && read PIPEIN
Tested on Ubuntu's Bash 5.

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answered Apr 28, 2023 at 11:20

To avoid waiting for input when there's no pipe, test it before reading:
[ -p /dev/stdin ] && read PIPEIN

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