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From the keyboard of boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts):
:In article <1992Jul27.140110.846@news.eng.convex.com>, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
:> 
:> ps axu | ( sed 1q ; sort -nr +3 ) 
:> 
:
:Eh?  Since when does sed do `unbuffered' reads?
:
:    prl313 ; @{echo 1 ; echo 2 ; echo 3} | @{sed 1q ; cat}
              ^^                        ^^^^^^
Sure looks like perl to me. :-)

:Nice idea though...

Hey -- it surprised the heck out of me too!  But it did indeed work
without losing lines on a test run.  Unforunately, I ran but one test, 
and must have just gotten lucky, cause now I lose lines.

This does seem to work:

	ps axu | (read line; echo "$line"; sort +3rn) 

I really loathe stdio sometimes, but I'm sure we're stuck with it
until the end of time.  The buffering on both reading and writing 
needs to be controllable without modifying the program or tricking
it into thinking you're a tty.

--tom
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    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist

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