NAME

Devel::Autoflush - Set autoflush from the command line

VERSION

version 0.06

SYNOPSIS

perl -MDevel::Autoflush Makefile.PL

DESCRIPTION

This module is a hack to set autoflush for STDOUT and STDERR from the command line or from PERL5OPT for code that needs it but doesn't have it.

This often happens when prompting:

# guess.pl
print "Guess a number: ";
my $n = <STDIN>;

As long as the output is going to a terminal, the prompt is flushed when STDIN is read. However, if the output is being piped, the print statement will not automatically be flushed, no prompt will be seen and the program will silently appear to hang while waiting for input. This might happen with 'tee':

$ perl guess.pl | tee capture.out

Use Devel::Autoflush to work around this:

$ perl -MDevel::Autoflush guess.pl | tee capture.out

Or set it in PERL5OPT:

$ export PERL5OPT=-MDevel::Autoflush
$ perl guess.pl | tee capture.out

= SEE ALSO

• CPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::Autoflush -- same idea but STDOUT only and

  only available as part of the full CPANPLUS distribution

SUPPORT

Bugs / Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at https://github.com/dagolden/Devel-Autoflush/issues. You will be notified automatically of any progress on your issue.

Source Code

This is open source software. The code repository is available for public review and contribution under the terms of the license.

https://github.com/dagolden/Devel-Autoflush

git clone https://github.com/dagolden/Devel-Autoflush.git

AUTHOR

David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2014 by David Golden.

This is free software, licensed under:

The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004

cpanm Devel::Autoflush

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Devel::Autoflush