I had some backup scripts that used ssh and scp but reported the following warning to stderr:
stdin: is not a tty
If you receive this error then it’s likely that your .bashrc file (or another terminal init file, on the server side) is trying to do things that require an interactive shell i.e. a shell which is expecting commands to be typed in.
To get rid of this warning you can add some bash to the top of .bashrc to prevent it doing anything if you’re in a non-interactive shell. There are a few alternatives, of which I’ve tried two:
Test for the ‘i’ flag
If the ‘i’ flag is set in the current shell options, then we have an interactive shell, so if it’s missing then we don’t.
# If 'i' option set then we have non-interactive shell so return
if [[ $- != *i* ]] ; then
return
fi
Test for the prompt
If there is no prompt variable ‘$PS1’ then we have a non-interactive shell.
# If no prompt then we have non-interactive shell so return
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
There are more ways of doing this - see the references.
