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May 12, 2022 at 17:57 comment added Michael This is not working for me when trying to unbuffer ffmpeg
Jun 30, 2020 at 9:14 comment added Daniel H Iʼm getting weird errors with unbuffer. A minimum reproducible example for me is unbuffer cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null; this causes a segfault within a couple seconds. This does not happen with /dev/zero or without unbuffer, making me think expect is trying to do something with the output. Does that seem plausible?
S Jul 8, 2019 at 14:50 history edited Stephen Kitt CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dec 11, 2015 at 16:08 comment added Alexandre Mazel Note: On Ubuntu 14.04.x systems, it's also in the expect-dev package.
Nov 4, 2015 at 23:50 comment added cas unbuffer is in the main expect package on debian now (it's still a symlink to expect_unbuffer, which is also in the main expect package)
S Jul 1, 2014 at 14:55 history suggested mik CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 11, 2013 at 13:00 comment added jfs @bdonlan: At least on Ubuntu (debian-based), expect-dev provides both unbuffer and expect_unbuffer (the former is a symlink to the latter). The links are available since expect 5.44.1.14-1 (2009).
Jan 26, 2013 at 23:33 comment added Joey Adams When I type Ctrl+Z to suspend the program, unbuffer doesn't pass the word along, so the program continues to use CPU. I'm on Ubuntu 10.04.
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Jan 24, 2011 at 11:14 comment added bdonlan Note: On debian systems, this is called expect_unbuffer and is in the expect-dev package, not the expect package
Oct 6, 2009 at 20:18 comment added Chris Conway When pipelining calls to unbuffer, you should use the -p argument so that unbuffer reads from stdin.
Jun 18, 2009 at 10:43 vote accept CommunityBot
Jun 17, 2009 at 7:58 comment added cheduardo In fact, the use of a pty to connect to interactive processes is true of expect in general.
Jun 16, 2009 at 11:03 history answered cheduardo CC BY-SA 2.5