Walter asked:
> How to find out, if the data from STDIN comes from a pipe or
> from the keyboard?
>
> My script is called in two modes:
> echo "[TEXT]" | smtp_send.pl ...
> or
> smtp_send.pl -message "[TEXT]"
>
> Inside the script, I read with:
> while( $zeile = <> ) {
> ....
> }
>
> I need to check, if data comes from a pipe before enter the loop ...
1) The following works, but I would _not_ recommend it:
use strict;
use warnings;
my $zeile = ARGV[1];
if(!$zeile)
{
while( $zeile = <> ) {
....
}
}
2) I would prefer to have the user use - to indicate input via
pipe. So usage would be:
[echo text] | smtp_send.pl -
smtp_send.pl [-message=text]
[echo some text] | smtp_send.pl - [-message=even more text]
my @lines;
for my $v (@ARGV)
{
if($v =~ /^-$/)
{
my @foo = <STDIN>;
push @lines, @foo;
}
if($v =~ /-message=(.*)/)
{
push @lines, $1;
}
}
chomp @lines;
#process @lines;
--Suresh
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