bsdgrep does not work with tail -f | grep combination

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 5 05:36:23 UTC 2010


On 08/04/10 11:18, Bakul Shah wrote:
> bsdgrep when used this way doesn't quit but doesn't do
> anything either (including printing what tail -f spits out
> from existing file data).

Does adding --line-buffered to the grep command line change the behavior 
at all?

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