Hi ! i'm using open(HANDLE,"cmd |") (with a while(<HANDLE>) {...}) to read and parse what the command "cmd" write to its standard output (simple and logic). My problem is that the commands writes really few datas to STDOUT, and the open (or the pipe ? or the way the "while(<HANDLE>)" is handled by perl ?) is buffered, so i sometimes have to wait about 1 or 2 minutes to have my perl program getting the datas... Is there any simple way to get that stuff being unbuffered (or to flush the buffer, or any other magic thing) ? if there's no easy way, i can still rewrite it "C fashion", with fork and exec, but i'm still not sure if the stdout will be automattically buffered or not... help meeeee !!!

In reply to real time open(HANDLE,"cmd |"); by rouge

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