in reply to Order of output when switching filehandles

I'm not sure, but you should close ( TEE ) when you're done with it.

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RE: Re: Order of output when switching filehandles
by Cirollo (Friar) on Aug 14, 2000 at 22:54 UTC
    Erk. That seems to have fixed it. Thanks.

    Just out of curiosity, can any of you gurus explain why that happens?

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      I may be smoking something, but usually $| = 1; doesn't completely disable buffering, just most of Perl's buffering. You still need to close it to force the OS buffer to be flushed.
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        As I understand it, when $| = 0, then buffering is enabled, and I think how it works depends on whether you are outputting to a terminal. $| = 1 doesn't completely disable buffering but turns on 'command buffering', so each time you do a 'print' or whatever, everything from that command is printed asap.
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