Bob Proulx wrote: >Scott Griffith wrote: > > >>I was just looking at the man page for grep, and wouldn't you know >>it.. --line-buffer is not very well documented. Infact, all it >>says about that is: >> >>(excerpt from man page) >>--line-buffering >> Use line buffering, it can be a performance penality. >> >> >You might find this discussion interesting. By a coincidence the same >issue was brought up in a different thread. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-03/msg00071.html > >Bob > > Yes that is a coincidence! For my own reference I documented the interaction between pipes and stdio buffering here: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/
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