Timeline for In what order do piped commands run?
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| Sep 30, 2023 at 2:37 | comment | added | waltinator | The grep option --line-buffered will keep grep from buffering. Thus, grep --line-buffered First_Line very-big-file | ...` will produce its output at once, not waiting for an output bufferfull. | |
| Nov 24, 2013 at 21:29 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @naxa There are two buffers, actually. There's the stdio buffer inside the grep program, and there's a buffer managed by the kernel in the pipe itself. For the latter, see How big is the pipe buffer? | |
| Nov 24, 2013 at 21:14 | comment | added | n611x007 | I guess there is some kind of IO buffer concerning the pipe... how do I know it's size in bytes? What do I want to read to learn more about it? :) | |
| May 5, 2012 at 20:48 | comment | added | Joe | And what's cool about this example is that when head gets the one line it needs, it terminates and when grep notices this, it also terminates without doing a bunch of further work for nothing. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 1:37 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |