Unbuffer

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To release or flush from a buffer. transitive

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From un- + buffer.

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