Help wanted: unbuffer, or stdbuf

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 04:38:08 UTC 2017


On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I wanted to linebuffer a program that is feeding into a pipe.
>
> Looking around with Google, I found two solutions:
> 1, unbuffer, from expect, or
> 2, stdbuf, from the gnu core utils.
>
> I've got expect 5.45. I've got core utils. I don't seem to have either.
>

Both of these programs rely on APIs that only exist in GNU glibc, not BSD
libc or OS X libSystem.

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