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From: charliem@athena.UUCP (Charlie Mills)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: tee command without buffering
Message-ID: <683@athena.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 12:28:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 10 12:28:46 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Dec-85 05:43:59 EST
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Reply-To: charliem@athena.UUCP (Charlie Mills)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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>Has anyone got a version of the tee command that doesn't buffer the I/O?

The standard solution under 4.2BSD is to use tail -f on the output
file.  (Don't use tee.)  Tail -f doesn't buffer its output between
sleeps.  You can kill or suspend the tail without disturbing the
process generating the data.  I don't know whether System V has tail or
if so whether there is a -f option or something analogous.

	-- Charlie Mills
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