Re^2: Suffering with buffering - how to wake 'less'

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That omits the first 999,990 lines of that sample script. But, as used in my reply to ikegami, it's close to what I'm settling on. dosomething > file &; tail -f file Even though I really just want some 'read the rest of the input' command in 'less'.

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Re^3: Suffering with buffering - how to wake 'less' by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 13, 2010 at 00:15 UTC
`producer > file & tail -n +1 -f file \| less ; rm file` [download] Nah, no good, `tail` never exits, so `less` freezes trying to get the end of the file.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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