bash one-liners with multiple pipes
Henry Spencer
henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
Tue May 11 15:04:06 UTC 2004
On Tue, 11 May 2004, daniel wrote:
> ...unfortuneately though, while this works...
> this doesn't:
What does the latter do, or not do? "doesn't" is not very specific. :-)
One problem with any attempt to run real-time output through pipes is that
many programs buffer output that's going to a pipe, waiting until they
have a full buffer before they actually write it out. You will still get
the same output... eventually... but whether you get it *promptly* depends
on little details, and is effectively unpredictable.
Henry Spencer
henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
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