Shell Programming and Scripting

When I run "/etc/myApp" I am presented with continuous output, just about once per second.

However when I try to get the information in Perl via a piped open, it waits till the end to give me anything... my code:

Code:

open (OUTPUT,"/etc/myApp |");
    while (<OUTPUT>){
        print $_;
    }
close (OUTPUT);

Why is that, and how can I fix it so that I do get the progressive output?

I know that I can solve my particular problem by just pushing STDOUT to a temp file, and then parsing it... but I would prefer to learn how to handle "live" data

I think perl is looking for a new line char before printing the line.

Maybe your output does not have a NL in the data?

I just changed my code to this:

Code:

my @lines = split(/\n/, `/etc/myApp`);
print join("\n", @lines);

Thanks though... I just ran out of time trying to figure the other one out