My goal: piping standard input from echo to a node file and asking for more input via a prompt. But I need to know which input is from the piping and which one is from the prompt.
The node file x.js looks like this:
const readline = require("readline");
let rl = readline.createInterface({
input: process.stdin,
output: process.stdout
});
rl.question("yes or no? (y/n)", answer => {
console.log("-" + answer + "-");
rl.close();
});
This one works (A prompt is shown, I enter "hello" and it is written to the console):
> node x.js -hello-
But this does not work (There is no prompt. The piped string is just written to the console.):
> echo "abcdefgh" | node x.js -abcdefgh-
How can I differentiate between those 2 kinds of standard input?
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