output is buffered.
try it like this
perl -e 'for(1..300){sleep 1;print ".\n";}'
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> Subject: One Liner Problems
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> Hello. What is wrong with this?
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> perl -e 'for(1..300){sleep 1;print ".";}'
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> It never prints anything.
> Thanks.
>
> Jess
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