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On 03/18/2014 10:30 PM, Jan Larres wrote:
> The best way to do that, and presumably the way grep itself does it, is
> to test whether stdin is connected to a terminal:
>
> mygrep() {
>      if [ -t 0 ]; then
>          echo terminal
>      else
>          read input
>          echo $input input
>      fi
> }
>
> $ mygrep
> terminal
> $ echo foo | mygrep
> foo input
>
Bloody marvellous! That scratches my itch just perfectly, thanks Jan.

I wish there was some web site: "101 things you still don't know you can 
do with
zsh, and why you want to know them".