Hello, I found what I think is a pretty good explanation what happens when shell pipelines are stacked, and real time output stalls.
Eg, tail -f messages real time, lots of noise. vs tail -f messages | grep -F ip.ip.ip.ip not so real time, just what I want. Why can't I have both? http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/ tail -f messages | stdbuf -oL grep -F ip.ip.ip.ip real time, just what I want. Regards, Scott Edwards. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
