stdbuf(1)

✨ stdbuf(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to stdbuf 💖 — a little General Commands Manual page that changes how your command buffers its standard streams. yes. that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

stdbuf — run COMMAND, but with modified buffering operations for its standard streams 💅

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. (yes, that rule applies everywhere in this page, so keep it in your notes 📝)

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

stdbuf [-i|--input] [-o|--output] [-e|--error] [-h|--help]
[-V|--version] <command>

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams. that's it. that's the main character move 👑

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. — same energy, same rule, no cap.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -i, --input <MODE> — adjust standard input stream buffering 🌊
• -o, --output <MODE> — adjust standard output stream buffering ✨
• -e, --error <MODE> — adjust standard error stream buffering 🚨
• -h, --help — Print help 🆘
• -V, --version — Print version 🏷️

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🌈 EXTRA 🌈

If MODE is 'L' the corresponding stream will be line buffered. > ⚠️ heads up bestie: this option is invalid with standard input. like, it will not work there, periodt.

If MODE is '0' the corresponding stream will be unbuffered.

Otherwise, MODE is a number which may be followed by one of the following:

KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y. In this case the corresponding stream will be fully buffered with the buffer size set to MODE bytes 📏

⚠️ NOTE: If COMMAND adjusts the buffering of its standard streams (tee does for e.g.) then that will override corresponding settings changed by stdbuf. Also some filters (like dd and cat etc.) don't use streams for I/O, and are thus unaffected by stdbuf settings. so like… if it's not working, check that first, iykyk 😭

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0 🔥

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and that's the page, bestie 🧚💜 this lil stdbuf manual came to you from stdbuf (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0, filed under the General Commands Manual — love that for us, go buff something iconic 🎀🦋💖