From: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
Cc: <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: stream buffering
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:08:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110221100852.3251e17c@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1102181754440.326@MyComp.rgm-web.net>
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:56:10 -0600
Rory Mulvaney <rorymulv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I'm definitely referring to the type of I/O using read and
> print (or some other builtin created by a module). And I don't
> necessarily mean in a script; it could just be from a loop on the
> command line where the loop reads or prints all lines in a file.
>
> while read var ; do
> -something-
> done
There are sysread and syswrite commands in the zsh/system module,
allowing you to read much larger chunks in one go.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <alpine.DEB.2.00.1102181746060.22551@MyComp.rgm-web.net>
2011-02-18 23:56 ` Rory Mulvaney
2011-02-21 10:08 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2011-02-18 1:40 Rory Mulvaney
2011-02-18 20:55 ` Peter Stephenson
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