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in thread Suffering with buffering - how to wake 'less'

producer > file & less file ; rm file

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doesn't work since less isn't expecting the file to change. 
producer > file ; less file ; rm file

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works, but less will only start up once the producer has ended.

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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'.

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