On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 04:03:05PM -0400, Grisha Levit wrote: > On Aug 20, 2016 9:32 PM, "Dmitry Goncharov" <dgoncha...@users.sf.net> wrote: > > With this new contract how can the user write portable bash code which > tests if a fd refers to a pipe? > > The test command seems to have the behavior you expect. > > $ uname > SunOS > $ mkfifo /tmp/pipe > $ cat < /tmp/pipe & > [1] 25376 > $ exec 6>/tmp/pipe > $ test -p /dev/fd/6 && echo pipe > $ /usr/bin/test -p /dev/fd/6 && echo pipe > pipe
Thank you. i switched to ksh. However, this is also an option. regards, Dmitry
