unbuffer

verb

unbuffer

verb

Etymology From un- + buffer.

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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To release or flush from a buffer.

  • 2003, Stas Bekman, Eric Cholet, Practical mod_perl We set $|=1 to unbuffer the STDERR stream, so we can immediately see the debug output generated by the program.

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