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in reply to 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.

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      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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[d/l]
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        Oops. I'd typo'ed. I meant 'tail -f' where I said 'less'.

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