"Scott K. Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > > > Now I notice that "cut" seems to buffer everything up. > > > > You should file a bug against cut, it should do line buffering when output > > is a tty. > > It may be something in the middle of the pipe doing the buffering. Not > certain how to handle that case.
Yes, that's the case - I had grep in the pipe before cut. ie. tail -f var/log/access.log | grep -v 'gif' | cut -c1-150 Maybe I'll just use a little perl script (with $|=1) to do the filtering I want - that's probably easiest. Cheers, - Jim
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