How to tell if you're in a pipe...

[Maarten Litmaath]

rbarrell at lgnp1.LS.COM (Robert Barrell) writes:
\
\     if [ `tty -s;echo $?` = 0 ]
\     then
\         echo "terminal"
\     else
\         echo "pipe"
\     fi

What an `interesting' way to accomplish the following:

	if tty -s
	then
		echo terminal
	else
		echo pipe
	fi
or even
	tty -s && echo terminal || echo pipe
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