Re[2]: ondatartr output

Deepa, The same thing happens with the dbimport.out/dbexport.out on my system. It buffers the output and writes out 8k pages to the output files. Regards David Ashby ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: ondatartr output Author: Deepa Sankaranarayan <deepa_sankaranarayan@hp.com> at WCA-INET Date: 06/5/98 9:21 AM Sujit Does'nt help. The moment ondatartr sees that the output needs to go to a file(also), it decides not to write immediately and I get any output only when ondatartr finishes. You have to see this to believe it. Thanks Deepa Sujit.Pal@alltel.com wrote: > Deepa > > Try using the Unix utility tee which basically "tee"-s the output to > both the file and stdout. You would need to replace: > > > output_file > > to > > | tee -a output_file > > HTH > > Sujit Pal > > ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ > Subject: ondatartr output > Author: Deepa Sankaranarayan <deepa_sankaranarayan@hp.com> at Internet > Date: 5/5/98 3:13 PM > > Hi > > We have a script that reads the output from ondatartr to check if the > tape we loaded is the right one or not. A grep on the output gives the > date of the backup. The problem is, if the output of ondatartr is > redirected to a file, the file gets written to, only at the time when > ondatartr is finishing, which means we wait for the entire ondatartr to > complete before we can see the date of backup.. Its only if ondatartr > writes to the terminal that output is written immediately. Anyone has > any idea on how to get around this problem. I am trying to use the unix > 'script' command, no success yet. > > TIA > > Deepa