Lev Bishop wrote: > Try "grep --line-buffered" to get grep to flush output after every > line. There is a performance penalty for doing this. I don't know why > you don't see the buffering when grep's stdout isn't redirected. > Perhaps grep (or the std library) removes/reduces buffering in the > case the output is a terminal. > > Lev
Yes, that works for this slimed down example, but probably not for the real work, as that includes several other commands that do not all have a --line-buffered equivalent. Thanks for you time though. I'll drop this now, it's getting more complex than the task deserves. I can get by as is... Cheers, Peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
