# No scripts **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Tags:** development\ **Created:** [August 16, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/no-scripts/1990 "2011-08-16T05:16:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/no-scripts/1990/1 "2011-08-16T05:16:25Z")
When one starts Bro with no scripts at all (e.g., "bro -i ix1"), it doesn't do anything because it will try to read from stdin. Seems we should change that now so that it will just start processing? Robin ---
**Author:** ![Seth\_Hall3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Seth\_Hall3](https://community.zeek.org/u/Seth_Hall3)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/no-scripts/1990/2 "2011-08-16T05:22:42Z")
Oh, I didn't realize this was behaving differently when sniffing a live interface. It already does this when reading a tracefile. It seems reasonable to me to make this the global behavior. What was the reason for being able to provide Bro scripts on stdin? Does anyone use this functionality?   .Seth ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/no-scripts/1990/3 "2022-05-06T15:39:46Z")