<div dir="ltr">Thanks for this, do we have to override what a user selects based on stdout? <div><br></div><div>i.e. ls -x | cat should it override and do single line or honor the -x flag?</div><div><br></div><div>I can set the defaults but trying to decide whether to do them after processing user flags or before.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Jan Schaumann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jschauma@stevens.edu" target="_blank">jschauma@stevens.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Tejas Nadkarni <<a href="mailto:tnadkarn@stevens.edu">tnadkarn@stevens.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> Related to this the references in the man page that talk about default<br>
> behavior for terminal and a program does that mean we detect what is<br>
> calling our program and set default behavior?<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, but it's not a question of detecting what is "calling" your<br>
program, but what stdout is connected to. See isatty(3).<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
-Jan<br>
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