Re: awk pipe and system call

On 3/28/2008 9:59 AM, uwcssa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> i have two problems with awk:
> 
> first, the following works on my system, which shows system usage
> 
>     iostat 2 | awk '{print $1}'
> 
> However, the following seems never gets written to the log file
> 
>        iostat 2 | awk '{print $1}'  > log
> 
> It may gets buffered inside awk, is there a way to turn auto buffer
> off?

Take a look at this thread:

	http://tinyurl.com/33ua89

Regards,

	Ed.