Help wanted: unbuffer, or stdbuf

[Michael]

On 2017-01-30, at 9:44 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> Both of these programs rely on APIs that only exist in GNU glibc, not BSD libc or OS X libSystem.
> 
> There are sometimes hacky ways around this.
> 
>     ssh -tt localhost the_command_that_buffers here | ... 
> 
> or
> 
>     script -a /dev/null the_command_that_buffers_here | ... # this one may end up buffering via scrip(1) though; test!
> 

Script is doing what I want, thank you!

> (beware if you have installed a version of script(1) via macports, its usage may differ!)

Nope, /usr/bin. Which package installs script?

> 
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