On 3/21/19, Martin McCormick <marti...@suddenlink.net> wrote: > I have been using unix of various flavors for 30 years so > this is a bit of a bone-head question except that different > styles of unix handle this situation somewhat differently. > > Imagine that you run a process whose output you want to > catch so you run it as someproc >catchfile. The process has an > end point so anything it produced gets saved in catchfile and all > is well. > > Now imagine you run someproc and it either has no end > condition or you haven't reached it yet so you kill it with > Control-C. Some unixen like FreeBSD seem to flush all the > buffers and you still get your output but Debian appears to not > flush the buffers and you get nothing or maybe a partial capture > with the most recent data lost. > > Is there a way to make sure we got everything that was > produced?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25372/turn-off-buffering-in-pipe/ Regards, Lee
