Chet Ramey wrote: > Linda Walsh wrote: > > Ideas? > > You're probably running into grep (and sort, and sed) buffering its > output. I haven't been able to figure out a way past that.
This may be a good point to mention this reference: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/ And the 'stdbuf' command the came out of it. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/stdbuf-invocation.html#stdbuf-invocation Bob
