Convince the command not to buffer. It is probably written such that if it
thinks stdout is a tty it line-buffers, but if stdout is a pipe it
block-buffers.

In perl you do this via "$|++". The app may have a command-line flag for it
if you're lucky.

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Hoa Phan <[email protected]> wrote:

> So I have something like:
>
> function startWebApp(command, arguments) {
>     var childProc = require("child_process").exec(command, arguments);
>     childProc.stdout.pipe(process.stdout);
>     childProc.on("exit", process.exit);
> }
>
>
> The output seems to be buffered and result seems to be delayed, it only 
> printed after some interval compared to when I runs the "command" directly in 
> bash.
>
> Is there a way around this.
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
>
>
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