Re: Suffering with buffering - how to wake 'less'

Printing to a full pipe causes the print to block. less doesn't read from its input until it needs to. I don't see any option to change that behaviour.

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Re^2: Suffering with buffering - how to wake 'less' by benizi (Hermit) on Jan 12, 2010 at 21:44 UTC
Nuts. I was hoping for something like +G or +F that wouldn't cause less to fully block. Falling back to the ol' `dosomething >& file &; less file` approach. Thanks as always ikegami.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Suffering with buffering - how to wake 'less' by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 12, 2010 at 21:59 UTC
`producer > file & less file ; rm file` [download] doesn't work since `less` isn't expecting the file to change. `producer > file ; less file ; rm file` [download] works, but `less` will only start up once the producer has ended.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Suffering with buffering - how to wake 'less' by benizi (Hermit) on Jan 12, 2010 at 22:34 UTC
Oops. I'd typo'ed. I meant 'tail -f' where I said 'less'.	[reply]


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