<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Eli Billauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@billauer.co.il">eli@billauer.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
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I need a simple command-line program, which works as a plain FIFO stream buffer with a huge RAM. Something I can do:<br>
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$ fatcat -b 256M /dev/datasource | ./my_shaky_data_sink<br>
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The idea is that "fatcat" reads data whenever available and stores it to non-swappable RAM. It then pushes the data to stdout. So it's just like good old "cat", only with a potentially large tummy.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've used pv or buffer for such purposes.</div><div><br></div><div>Baruch</div></div></div></div>