From fb89e6906192df2ee7e3746e6d129f15d7d2d3d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VoR0220 <catalanor0220@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] much better and simpler way of handling this

---
 solc/CommandLineInterface.cpp | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/solc/CommandLineInterface.cpp b/solc/CommandLineInterface.cpp
index 003ad0304..21624b3b6 100644
--- a/solc/CommandLineInterface.cpp
+++ b/solc/CommandLineInterface.cpp
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@
  */
 #include "CommandLineInterface.h"
 
+#ifdef _WIN32 // windows
+	#include <io.h>
+	#define isatty _isatty
+	#define fileno _fileno
+#else // unix
+	#include <unistd.h>
+#endif
 #include <string>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <fstream>
@@ -478,7 +485,7 @@ Allowed options)",
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	if (m_args.count("help"))
+	if (m_args.count("help") || (isatty(fileno(stdin)) && _argc == 1))
 	{
 		cout << desc;
 		return false;