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Date:      Thu, 8 Jun 2023 17:22:38 -0400
From:      Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <dr.klepp@gmx.at>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Slightly OT: non-buffered stdin in Java
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On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 2:39=E2=80=AFPM Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <dr.klepp@gmx.at>=
 wrote:
>
> Anno domini 2023 Thu, 8 Jun 14:01:19 -0400
>  Aryeh Friedman scripsit:
> > Under Java stdin (System.in) is a buffered stream not sent to the
> > application until return is pressed.  But, Java can read from
> > files/sockets and other generic InputStreams unbuffered.   So I was
> > wondering if there is a command that will make stdin go to a file so
> > that Java can open that file and read it unbuffered?
> >
> > I know I can do something like cat ->file but that makes it hard to
> > sync stdout and stderr (both are unbuffered in Java) with the file
> > version of stdin
> >
>
> "stdbuf" might be what you look for:
>
> https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dstdbuf

Will likely need to play with it more but stdbuf -i 0 -o 0 cat -|cat
didn't produce the expected immediate echo I still had to hit return

--=20
Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org



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