[!WARNING] This is crate is no longer maintained and users are encouraged to prefer the equivalant functionality of std.io.IsTerminal, introduced in Rust 1.70.0

Thank you for your support!

are you or are you not a tty?

Add the following to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
atty = "0.2"

use atty::Stream;

fn main() {
  if atty::is(Stream::Stdout) {
    println!("I'm a terminal");
  } else {
    println!("I'm not");
  }
}

This library has been unit tested on both unix and windows platforms (via appveyor).

A simple example program is provided in this repo to test various tty's. By default.

It prints

$ cargo run --example atty
stdout? true
stderr? true
stdin? true

To test std in, pipe some text to the program

$ echo "test" | cargo run --example atty
stdout? true
stderr? true
stdin? false

To test std out, pipe the program to something

$ cargo run --example atty | grep std
stdout? false
stderr? true
stdin? true

To test std err, pipe the program to something redirecting std err

$ cargo run --example atty 2>&1 | grep std
stdout? false
stderr? false
stdin? true

Doug Tangren (softprops) 2015-2019