Re: [leafnode-list] Can fetchnews un-buffer stdout?

["Mark Harrison" <markh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there any way that the verbose output of `fetchnews' could be
> written to stdout unbuffered?

If you have "expect" installed, you can use it's small "unbuffer"
example program.  Change
    fetchnews ... > file
to
    unbuffer fetchnews ... >file

Expect is a very nice package for handling interactive programs
or other programs that run differently if they are attached to
a terminal.  There's an O'Reilly book "Exploring Expect" and a
lot of examples at expect.nist.gov.

HTH,
Mark



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