By flushing the output, iio_event_monitor can be more useful to programs chained along with it. iio_event_monitor stk3310 | awk '/rising/{system("my_unlockscreen.sh")} /falling/{system("my_lockscreen.sh")}' Without this flush, the above example would buffer a number of events, then after a while run the lock/unlock scripts several times. Signed-off-by: Zach DeCook <zachdecook@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c b/tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c index 0076437f6..b94a16ba5 100644 --- a/tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c +++ b/tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c @@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ static void print_event(struct iio_event_data *event) printf(", direction: %s", iio_ev_dir_text[dir]); printf("\n"); + fflush(stdout); } /* Enable or disable events in sysfs if the knob is available */ -- 2.34.0