On 2021-08-10 9:34 a.m., Peter Stephenson wrote:
Well that's the thing. Thomas can be forgiven for being a bit unclear about what it all means. The docs basically assume you already know. But that's very roughly how I understand it -- no prompts if not interactive.Very very very very very roughly, "interactive" in this sense means it's showing you prompts and bringing up a line editor to edit the command line.
Just when I thought I understood it :-( So 'non-interactive' might be interactive after all? It would take some writing skill to really elucidate this.Being "non-interactive" doesn't mean you can't interact with the shell. There's still probably a standard input and output.