can't pipe through multiple commands

[cphoover]

I can't pipe through multiple commands I'm thinking it's getting caught in buffering and not flushing output.

but this isn't working

chokidar **/*.scala | awk -F: '{print $2}' | awk -F/ '{print $1}'

isn't working at all

[jchook]

This is an issue for me as well. I see no output when piping certain commands, e.g.

chokidar src | cat
chokidar src | xargs -L1

Surprisingly, adding the -c flag fixes the issue for some cases, e.g.

chokidar src -c '' | cat

For a sanity check, we can see these examples:

do_timer() { while true; do echo 1; sleep 1; done }

# Works
do_timer | cat
do_timer | xargs -L1
do_timer | cut -f1

# Broken
do_timer | cut -f1 | xargs -L1

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