Jan Klemkow <j.klem...@wemelug.de> wrote: > here is a diff that adds optional linebuffering to tr(1) with command > line switch -u like in sed(1). I need this to remove '\r' characters > from a continues input steam which lines have to be there immediately.
It's really odd to make tr output line-buffered, since tr doesn't process lines to begin with. FreeBSD's tr -u is unbuffered. Maybe, instead of adding such flags to more and more utilities, we should have a general unbuffer tool that runs things through a pty. (And I'd be surprised if something like this wasn't already floating around.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
