[Omaha.pm] Detecting interactive console vs. in a script.

[Daniel Linder]

Thanks -- don't know how my Googl'ing missed that...



Guess I won't have to re-invent the wheel. :)



Dan



On Thu, May 18, 2006 10:48, Andy Lester wrote:

> 

> On May 18, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Daniel Linder wrote:

> 

>> Has anyone seen a good way to determine if a Perl script is
running

>> on an interactive console vs. within a shell or Perl script?  I

>> have a code snippet that I want to print more text to a console
for

>> the user to view, but if it is within a script I don't want to

>> clutter its output.

> 

> This is covered in detail in the FAQ.

> 

> $ perldoc -q interactive

> 

> Found in /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/pods/perlfaq8.pod

>         How do I find out if I’m running interactively or
not?

> 

> 

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AIM:petdance

> 

> 

> 

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