Read from file or stdin
问题 I am writing a utility which accepts either a filename, or reads from stdin. I would like to know the most robust / fastest way of checking to see if stdin exists (data is being piped to the program) and if so reading that data in. If it doesn't exist, the processing will take place on the filename given. I have tried using the following the test for size of stdin but I believe since it's a stream and not an actual file, it's not working as I suspected it would and it's always printing -1 . I