Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > One thing I'd worry about is buffering. One of the nice things about > "-v" is that there is nothing between you and the running programs, so > you are much less likely to be fooled about the order of events in the > output. Or wondering why nothing is happening because real-time output > seems to have stalled. But piping through "cat" may end up with weird > pauses while it fills up a 4k buffer. Using stdbuf could help, but > that's far from portable. We could pipe to "dd bs=1 conv=fsync" (tongue-in-cheek---I think conv=fsync is a GNU thing).
