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RE: tail -f and pipes with bash shell
- From: "Peter Ekberg" <peda at axentia dot se>
- To: "Lev Bishop" <lev dot bishop at gmail dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 02:13:44 +0200
- Subject: RE: tail -f and pipes with bash shell
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
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