But this is yet another anti-pattern: Having different behaviour depending on whether it's an interactive shell or not. A big offender here is CURL, where this

But this is yet another anti-pattern: Having different behaviour depending on whether it's an interactive shell or not. A big offender here is CURL, where this affects the verbosity during download. This is especially frustrating with regard to automation. 1. You type by hand, everything works. 2. You copy&paste into the command line, and everything works. 3. You run it from a script, and it behaves differently.