instance method

IO#tty?

() -> bool

tty?

static VALUE
rb_io_isatty(VALUE io)
{
    rb_io_t *fptr;

    GetOpenFile(io, fptr);
    return RBOOL(isatty(fptr->fd) != 0);
}

Alias of #isatty

Returns true if the stream is associated with a terminal device (tty), false otherwise:

Example

f = File.new('t.txt').isatty    #=> false
f.close
f = File.new('/dev/tty').isatty #=> true
f.close

See also #isatty #to_path #ttyname #to_io also in 4.1 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0