Re: piping tail -f through cut

2008-02-10 Thread Bob van Loosen
Bob Proulx wrote: Bob van Loosen wrote: Whenever I do this: tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d " " | dd bs=1 I get no output, but when I do this: tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d " " I do get output, I'm using coreutils 5.97 on Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit. What you are seeing

Re: piping tail -f through cut

2008-02-08 Thread Pádraig Brady
James Youngman wrote: > On Feb 8, 2008 5:26 PM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is a very silly idea, considering it would violate the C standard >> (§7.19.3#7): >> >> As initially opened, the standard error stream is not fully buffered; >> the standard input and standard output stream

Re: piping tail -f through cut

2008-02-08 Thread James Youngman
On Feb 8, 2008 5:26 PM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a very silly idea, considering it would violate the C standard > (§7.19.3#7): > > As initially opened, the standard error stream is not fully buffered; > the standard input and standard output streams are fully buffered if and >

Re: piping tail -f through cut

2008-02-08 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pádraig Brady wrote: > Bob van Loosen wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Whenever I do this: >> >> tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d " " | dd bs=1 >> >> I get no output, but when I do this: >> >> tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d " " >> >> I

Re: piping tail -f through cut

2008-02-08 Thread Pádraig Brady
Bob van Loosen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Whenever I do this: > > tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d " " | dd bs=1 > > I get no output, but when I do this: > > tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d " " > > I do get output, I'm using coreutils 5.97 on Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit. I've documen

Re: piping tail -f through cut

2008-02-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob van Loosen wrote: > Whenever I do this: > > tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d " " | dd bs=1 > > I get no output, but when I do this: > > tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d " " > > I do get output, I'm using coreutils 5.97 on Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit. What you are seeing are the ef

piping tail -f through cut

2008-02-07 Thread Bob van Loosen
Hi everyone, Whenever I do this: tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d " " | dd bs=1 I get no output, but when I do this: tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d " " I do get output, I'm using coreutils 5.97 on Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit. Greetings, Bob van Loosen. _