Cat on (RAM) steroids

[Baruch Even]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Eli Billauer <eli at billauer.co.il> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I need a simple command-line program, which works as a plain FIFO stream
> buffer with a huge RAM. Something I can do:
>
>
> $ fatcat -b 256M /dev/datasource | ./my_shaky_data_sink
>
>
> 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.
>

I've used pv or buffer for such purposes.

Baruch
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