On 27 Sep 2011, at 1:07pm, Patrick Proniewski wrote: > On 27 sept. 2011, at 13:44, Simon Slavin wrote: > >> If you're using the OS X version, I don't think you need to run iostat as a >> continuous process. Write a shell script with a timed loop which runs >> iostat without the '-w 10'. So you could write a script which does > > That's what I do, but I think using a loop is ugly, and I would like to find > a way to feed data continuously into sqlite.
Can't be done using piping because of the problem pointed out earlier: piping buffers octets until it fills up a page. That is a good solution for normal piping purposes and completely useless for anything that must be up-to-the-second. I think the scripting solution will do better for you. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users