SYNOPSIS
stdbuf OPTION... COMMANDDESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -i, --input=MODE
- adjust standard input stream buffering
- -o, --output=MODE
- adjust standard output stream buffering
- -e, --error=MODE
- adjust standard error stream buffering
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
If MODE is `L' the corresponding stream will be line buffered. This option is invalid with standard input.
If MODE is `0' the corresponding stream will be unbuffered.
Otherwise MODE is a number which may be followed by one of the following: KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y. In this case the corresponding stream will be fully buffered with the buffer size set to MODE bytes.
NOTE: If COMMAND adjusts the buffering of its standard streams (`tee' does for e.g.) then that will override corresponding settings changed by `stdbuf'. Also some filters (like `dd' and `cat' etc.) don't use streams for I/O, and are thus unaffected by `stdbuf' settings.
EXAMPLES
tail -f access.log | stdbuf -oL cut -d ' ' -f1 | uniqThis will immedidately display unique entries from access.log
BUGS
On GLIBC platforms, specifying a buffer size, i.e. using fully buffered mode will result in undefined operation.AUTHOR
Written by Padraig Brady.REPORTING BUGS
Report stdbuf bugs to [email protected]GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report stdbuf translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.