Um, I won't get into the technicalities of why you tried didn't work -- it's a bit complicated. Normally you want to send input from a file like this:
You can do this with named pipes:
You have to put the cat into the background, because the pipe doesn't buffer any input.
Hello
I am getting error when the file (Folder or Application) path having space is given as external input to the shell program.
It works fine for the files which has no spaces in the file name
Thans, (5 Replies)
i have a program ABC, which runs every two minutes and takes the input according to the a value called "pointer"
files need to be processed by ABC are
input0001
input0002
input0003
input0004
input0005
current value of pointer is 0001, now program runs and takes all the files from... (2 Replies)
Just playing around with process substitution.
Hoping maybe someone can give me some help on what I'm doing wrong.
When this script is run, "Null message body; hope that's ok" is returned and the script hangs.
I can't seem to work out what I'm doing wrong.
Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have a script to run some other scripts automatically. But while running the script it should take the input value from a text file instead of taking from the keyboard. Please find last two lines of the script below. Here ans should be taken from a text file ineerly without displaying this... (1 Reply)
By "many many times" I mean the times the input file is to be processed is unknown beforehand, it will be known when awk finishes processing the input file for the first time.
So my question is: how to start over again from the first record of the input file when AWK finishes processing the... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I want to know if there's a cleaner way for assigning output of a unix command to a variable in C program .
Example : I execute dirname fname and want the output to be assigned to a variable dname . Is it possible .
I knew u can redirect the output to a file and then reread assigning... (5 Replies)
Output file template format
<input_file_name>a</input_file_name>
<total_length_size>b</total_length_size>
<log_10_length_size>c</log_10_length_size>
Input_file_1 (eg. sample.txt)
SDFSDGDGSFGRTREREYWW
Parameter:
a is equal to the input file name
b is equal to the total length of... (2 Replies)
Hello to all. I'm new to this forum, so please go easy on me. =)
I am working on a script to send two e-mail attachments in a single e-mail, and am running into a little bit of an issue when using process substitution. I am using the following:
cat <(uuencode $1 <(basename $1)) <(uuencode... (5 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I am running a program
/path/to/program -i 1 100 -o /path/to/output/op_1_100.txt
In the above command, I have to try various number of combinations at the -i parameter and the output file name varies with each combination.
Now, I have my -i parameter text file, which is like... (4 Replies)
i have tried process substitution, but run in some problems.
this works:
samtools view -h $SAMdir/$b.bam | htseq-count -m union -s no -q -t exon -i gene_id - $gtf > $b.count &
but this not:
htseq-count -m union -s no -q -t exon -i gene_id <(samtools view -h $SAMdir/$b.bam) $gtf >... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: dietmar13
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
unbuffer
UNBUFFER(1) General Commands Manual UNBUFFER(1)NAME
unbuffer - unbuffer output
SYNOPSIS
unbuffer program [ args ]
INTRODUCTION
unbuffer disables the output buffering that occurs when program output is redirected from non-interactive programs. For example, suppose
you are watching the output from a fifo by running it through od and then more.
od -c /tmp/fifo | more
You will not see anything until a full page of output has been produced.
You can disable this automatic buffering as follows:
unbuffer od -c /tmp/fifo | more
Normally, unbuffer does not read from stdin. This simplifies use of unbuffer in some situations. To use unbuffer in a pipeline, use the
-p flag. Example:
process1 | unbuffer -p process2 | process3
CAVEATS
unbuffer -p may appear to work incorrectly if a process feeding input to unbuffer exits. Consider:
process1 | unbuffer -p process2 | process3
If process1 exits, process2 may not yet have finished. It is impossible for unbuffer to know long to wait for process2 and process2 may
not ever finish, for example, if it is a filter. For expediency, unbuffer simply exits when it encounters an EOF from either its input or
process2.
In order to have a version of unbuffer that worked in all situations, an oracle would be necessary. If you want an application-specific
solution, workarounds or hand-coded Expect may be more suitable. For example, the following example shows how to allow grep to finish pro-
cessing when the cat before it finishes first. Using cat to feed grep would never require unbuffer in real life. It is merely a place-
holder for some imaginary process that may or may not finish. Similarly, the final cat at the end of the pipeline is also a placeholder
for another process.
$ cat /tmp/abcdef.log | grep abc | cat
abcdef
xxxabc defxxx
$ cat /tmp/abcdef.log | unbuffer grep abc | cat
$ (cat /tmp/abcdef.log ; sleep 1) | unbuffer grep abc | cat
abcdef
xxxabc defxxx
$
BUGS
The man page is longer than the program.
SEE ALSO
"Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs" by Don Libes, O'Reilly and Associates, January 1995.
AUTHOR
Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology
1 June 1994 UNBUFFER(1)