Stdbuf

lastmod 2026-02-06created 2024-07-271 edits

Redirect stdout without buffering

Example

stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0 time python analysis.py | tee output.log

This sets the pipe buffer to 0, so output is printed immediately.

Text	Common	grep, sed, awk, cat, xargs, rev, tee, ack, tr, stdbuf, split
Diff	diff, patch
Cutting	cut, head, tail, less, more, split, watch
Sort	uniq, sort
Hash	base64, md5sum, sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, sha512sum
Clipboard	clip (Windows), pbcopy (Mac OSX), pbpaste (Mac OSX), xclip (Debian)
E.T.C	regexp, parallel

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