piping output is delayed

2008-09-27 Thread martin schneebacher
hi! i'm stuck into a strange problem. i'm piping the output of one program into a textfile, and with a ruby script i'm parsing it. it works fine on my laptop, but on the pc i need it to install the output in the file is blocked every 10 seconds. the parser has therfore a delay of maximal 10

Re: piping output is delayed

2008-09-27 Thread Bob Proulx
martin schneebacher wrote: i'm stuck into a strange problem. i'm piping the output of one program into a textfile, and with a ruby script i'm parsing it. Did you mean redirecting to a text file? Piping implies that there is a program reading from the pipe but then there wouldn't be any files