Michael Chesterton wrote:
> I guess grep is detecting whether it's talking to a terminal, and doesn't
> buffer if it is (or probably line buffers).
If you are using
whatever | grep one | grep two
the first grep will detect that it is reading from a pipe and
writing to a pipe and will buffer writes as big as it can.
Grep has a --line-buffering option for a reason.
Erik
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