Re: Possible bug with grep/sed/tail?

[Paolo Bonzini]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     It's probably useful to add this functionality to all coreutil filters.
> 
> Wouldn't it suffice to add buffer control options to cat, rather than
> every program?

Unfortunately no -- it's the other program that needs to be taught about
the buffering policy to adopt.  tail -f for example uses explicit
flushing, so it works.  sed and grep need special options.

Paolo