On 27 sept. 2011, at 20:14, David Garfield wrote: > Any entry in a pipe could be buffering. In a quick test here, awk is > buffering. To find the buffering, try using the pieces up to a given > stage with " | cat " added at the end. If this buffers, you've found > the problem.
as far as my understanding goes, the simple fact I don't have my last output into a tty is enough to trigger buffering. > Unbuffered output is usually slower, so it is normally > done only to a terminal. I think the only easy way to externally > disable the buffer is to wrap the program in a pseudo-tty. apparently... not so easy by the way :) > Alternatively, look for an option that lets you explicitly unbuffer. > (for instance, in perl, do: $| = 1; ) nothing in awk, but I could try sed instead (-l Make output line buffered) regards, patpro _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
