Prevent dumping binary PDFs to stdout

2016-10-27 16:20:53 -07:00
parent 2e4431cc63
commit 717acd9855
1 changed files with 8 additions and 0 deletions
@@ -1445,6 +1445,14 @@ def run_pipeline():
                _log.error("File not found - " + options.input_file)
                return ExitCode.input_file

+        if options.output_file == '-':
+            if sys.stdout.isatty():
+                _log.error(textwrap.dedent("""\
+                    Output was set to stdout '-' but it looks like stdout
+                    is connected to a terminal.  Please redirect stdout to a
+                    file."""))
+                return ExitCode.bad_args
+
        cmdline.run(options)
    except ruffus_exceptions.RethrownJobError as e:
        if options.verbose: