Helpful Tools

These are helpful tools and usages I’ve wandered into.

Unbuffer

This is included in the expect package. It runs a command ensuring that the output is a TTY, even when piping or redirecting to a file.

The use case designed for is to ensure that output comes line-by-line vs buffered into blocks.

The other super useful feature is when you want colorized output to be piped to another tool e.g. less.