Hi Assaf, On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:14 PM Assaf Gordon <assafgor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The easiest way to avoid that is to use "stdbuf" (from coreutils), > forcing a flush after each line. Assuming the lines are short enough > (and file's output should be short enough), it should work: > > find /usr -print0 | xargs -0r -P199 -n16 stdbuf -oL file | ... I don't think this is robust enough. If many "stdbuf -oL file" processes decide to produce a reasonably sized output pretty much at the same time, it might still suddenly clog the pipe and result in a short write in one of them. Or am I missing something? cheers, egmont
