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Re: stream buffering

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From: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: stream buffering
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:08:52 +0000
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:56:10 -0600
Rory Mulvaney <rorymulv@xxxxxxxxx> 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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