Author: Graham Bleach Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] unwanted buffering of ssh output when piping into awk
On 10/04/2008, Victor Churchill <victorchurchill@???> wrote: > ssh someServer "tail -f blah_log" | awk '{doSomeStuff}' ==>
> somewhere in ssh, or in my bash or awk, data is buffered and only
> appears on my terminal after it reaches 4K characters.
Try the option to tell awk not to buffer input. It's -W interactive on
my version.
Failing that, check that ssh compression is off or try ssh -o Compression=no
