[PLUG] more buffering than i'd like

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:04:56AM -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
> When I check on the output.data file, e.g. with tail -f:
> 
>   $ tail -f output.data
> 
> not unexpectedly, I get blocky output as the redirect is being
> buffered somewhere or other.  This is all familiar, but ... I'd like
> to make it not be buffered (that is, I want the lines to show up as
> the come out of "sample") ...  Unfortunately, that's about all I
> remember.  Anyone kind enough to supply me a refresher?
 
 
If sample is written in Perl add 
$|++;
during the initialization sections.

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