dbus-monitor and awk

[spitfire23bc]

Brilliant!! Thanks Jesse and Cameron!

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Jesse Weinstein wrote:
> 
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 4:35 PM, spitfire23bc wrote:
>> Hi all, I'm trying to write a bash script that will listen for specific
>> events on dbus and run commands depending on those events. I've been 
>> using
> ...
>> On the author's Fedora 10 system, this gives an output whenever a 
>> Tomboy
>> note is created, saved or deleted. On Ubuntu 8.10, it gives no output.
> ...
>> works fine; it is the pipe to the awk command that kills any kind of 
>> output.
>>
>> When the output from the dbus-monitor command is saved to a file and 
>> the
>> same awk command run on that file, it gives the expected output.
>>
>> Is there a way to get awk to run commands whilst dbus-monitor is still
>> going, as is the purpose of this script?
> Yes, although as you realized, this is not a dbus (or dbus-monitor) 
> problem.  Per `man awk`, if you add -W interactive to the awk command, 
> it will do unbuffered reads, and therefore work.
> 
> Thanks for asking a question I was able to (figure out how to) answer!
> 
> Jesse Weinstein
> 
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