Do something like this once, after opening the output filehandle: 
   select(OUTPUT);  # Change the default filehandle
   $|=1;            # Turn on autoflushing for default f.h.
   select(STDOUT);  # Go back to normal default f.h.

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More importantly:

When processes exit normally (via the exit function or simply falling off the end of the script) pending output on filehandles is flushed and the filehandles are closed. What's curious is that this isn't happening for you. Are you terminating the script in some odd way? Segfaulting it? Killing it with a signal?

In reply to Re: Buffering File Output by clintp
in thread Buffering File Output by MadraghRua

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