Error “The input device is not a TTY”

Question

I am running the following command from my Jenkinsfile. However, I get the error \"The input device is not a TTY\".

docker run -v $PWD:         


        

Answer 1

winpty works as long as you don't specify volumes to be mounted such as ".:/mountpoint" or "${pwd}:/mountpoint"

The best workaround I have found is to use the git-bash plugin inside Visual Code Studio and use the terminal to start and stop containers or docker-compose.

Answer 2

For those who struggle with this error and git bash on Windows, just use PowerShell where -it works perfectly.

Answer 3

It's not exactly what you are asking, but:

The -T key would help people who are using docker-compose exec!

docker-compose -f /srv/backend_bigdata/local.yml exec -T postgres backup

Answer 4

I believe you need to be in a TTY for docker to be able to allocate a TTY (the -t option). Jenkins executes its jobs not in a TTY.

Having said that, the script you are running within Jenkins you may also want to run locally. In that case it can be really convenient to have a TTY allocated so you can send signals like ctrl+c when running it locally.

To fix this make your script optionally use the -t option, like so:

test -t 1 && USE_TTY="-t" 
docker run ${USE_TTY} ...

Answer 5

if using windows, try with cmd , for me it works. check if docker is started.