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Re: [logcheck] I hear you...



On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:54:46PM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: 

>     Henrique> It will break a lot of scripts in very unfunny
>     Henrique> ways. Hint: people use echo | or echo > in shell scripts
>     Henrique> sometimes...
> 
>  Hmmm. Yes, I see.  The echo replacement would have to be capable of
>  detecting that, and there's not any way it can.

  Not that i think it's a good idea, but this would be possible by checking
whether stdout (file descriptor 1) is connected to a tty.

-- 
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