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Line-buffering the output when forewarding to a file
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akash_rawal


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PostPosted: Fri 06 Jul 2012, 13:52    Post_subject:  Line-buffering the output when forewarding to a file
Sub_title: [color=green]command > path/to/file[/color] doesn't flush output after every line		  
There's a line in pupdial:
Code:
wvdial ${WVISP} ${WVPIN} ${WVAPN} ${WVWRLS} &> /tmp/pupdial.log &

/tmp/pupdial.log is updated after every line of output and can be viewed in wvdial connection log.

When I try to achieve a similar thing for the volume monitor, the output is full-buffered i.e. the output is not flushed after every line. Data gets written only when it has written about 1kb. None of the following work like I want.
Code:
pup-volume-monitor &> "$LOG_FILE" #forewards stderr only

Code:
pup-volume-monitor 2>&1 > "$LOG_FILE" #forewards stderr only

Code:
pup-volume-monitor 2>&1 | cat > "$LOG_FILE" #full buffered output

Code:
pup-volume-monitor 2>&1 | grep --line-buffered "" > "$LOG_FILE" #full buffered output


How can I achieve line buffering, please help!
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PostPosted: Fri 06 Jul 2012, 14:17    Post_subject:  
The only way I know of is to add explicit buffer flushes to the C code with
Code:
fflush(stdout)
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Karl Godt


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PostPosted: Sat 21 Jul 2012, 22:04    Post_subject:  
Cannot find any pup-volume-monitor on the forum .

&>FILE should mean stdout and stderr to FILE . Probably the ' &' fork at the very end of the line is needed here.

Some programs still issue output to the console even with &>FILE.
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