On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Scott Edwards wrote: > http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/ > > tail -f messages | stdbuf -oL grep -F ip.ip.ip.ip > real time, just what I want.
Nice. I didn't know stdbuf is part of GNU coreutils -- having it (nearly) everywhere makes it pretty handy to know. I noticed that your example above can also be done with GNU grep --line-buffered, which the article mentions as well. Thanks for posting that. Jon -- Jon Jensen End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
