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thank you tcl (/expect) for the unbuffer command (among probably other effects, it makes it so that a program thinks it's talking to a TTY)
@aschmitz i knew this at one point despite never using either. but i relearned it because i found out about the unbuffer command from a julia evans blogpost and it is in the expect package so i went and looked up what the package was before deciding to install it.
@alyssa Ha, nice. I keep re-remembering unbuffer exists. I don't think I've ever needed it for "pretend you're in a terminal" uses, but it is useful for, well, unbuffering commands that for whatever reason want to write logs in larger chunks but produce them slowly.
@alyssa *tries to mentally file unbuffer next to nohup, yet again*
@alyssa Huh, TIL expect is from tcl. I guess that makes sense, I've just never really used it in much detail.