The only thing that generally annoys me about the 'less' command (other than trying to google it) is that I can't figure out how to get it to not stop the program on the input end of its pipe. Take the following example:

perl -lwe 'print and /000$/ and warn "HERE$_\n" for 1..1e6' | less

HERE1000 through HERE14000 get printed to STDERR before less stops perl. Unbuffering output (select((select($_),$|=1)[0]) for STDOUT, STDERR) doesn't change anything.

perl isn't the program with which I'm having trouble, but hopefully what works for perl will point me in the right direction.

In reply to Suffering with buffering - how to wake 'less' by benizi

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