Man1 - stdbuf.1
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NAME
stdbuf - Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams.
SYNOPSIS
stdbuf OPTION… COMMAND
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -i, *–input*=/MODE/
- adjust standard input stream buffering
- -o, *–output*=/MODE/
- adjust standard output stream buffering
- -e, *–error*=/MODE/
- adjust standard error stream buffering
- –help
- display this help and exit
- –version
- output version information and exit
If MODE is ’L’ the corresponding stream will be line buffered. This option is invalid with standard input.
If MODE is ’0’ the corresponding stream will be unbuffered.
Otherwise MODE is a number which may be followed by one of the following: KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y. Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. In this case the corresponding stream will be fully buffered with the buffer size set to MODE bytes.
NOTE: If COMMAND adjusts the buffering of its standard streams (’tee’ does for example) then that will override corresponding changes by ’stdbuf’. Also some filters (like ’dd’ and ’cat’ etc.) don’t use streams for I/O, and are thus unaffected by ’stdbuf’ settings.
EXAMPLES
tail -f access.log | stdbuf -oL cut -d ’ ’ -f1 | uniq
This will immediately display unique entries from access.log
BUGS
On GLIBC platforms, specifying a buffer size, i.e., using fully buffered mode will result in undefined operation.
AUTHOR
Written by Padraig Brady.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Report any translation bugs to https://translationproject.org/team/
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL
version 3 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There
is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/stdbuf
or available locally via: info ’(coreutils) stdbuf invocation’