On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, David Adam wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> > How can I determine that my function has something to on read stdin (to
> > not call "read" then which would open an interactive prompt)?
>
> This is a different question; the tty function does not check for the
> presence or absence of data on stdin. I don't actually know of a clever
> way of doing this from a shell script; in C I guess you'd do a select()
> with a zero timeout or something.
I've just been informed that (at least in bash) you can use `read -n 0 -t
0`, but this is not implemented in fish at this stage.
David Adam
zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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