Flush pipe so that output can be piped to other commands

[hexa00]

Running a query to the console outputs the contents fast.

But doing the same thing and piping to tee or to grep like

livetail ... | tee log livetail .. | grep "..."

Data doesn't arrive to the piped process until livetail is closed or a good amount of data has passed...

I think this may be because livetail doesn't flush it's writes to the pipe?

[j14s]

Same issue.

[h3x89]

Works perfectly for me with grep and ag ;)

[mdillavou]

I use the unbuffer command from the expect package. This forces everything to be flushed immediately.

unbuffer livetail ...