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Subject: | RE: tail -f and pipes with bash shell |
Date: | Fri, 13 May 2005 02:13:44 +0200 |
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From: | "Peter Ekberg" <peda AT axentia DOT se> |
To: | "Lev Bishop" <lev DOT bishop AT gmail DOT com> |
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Lev Bishop wrote: > Try "grep --line-buffered" to get grep to flush output after every > line. There is a performance penalty for doing this. I don't know why > you don't see the buffering when grep's stdout isn't redirected. > Perhaps grep (or the std library) removes/reduces buffering in the > case the output is a terminal. > > Lev Yes, that works for this slimed down example, but probably not for the real work, as that includes several other commands that do not all have a --line-buffered equivalent. Thanks for you time though. I'll drop this now, it's getting more complex than the task deserves. I can get by as is... Cheers, Peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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