unbuffer

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ buffer.

Verb

unbuffer (third-person singular simple present unbuffers, present participle unbuffering, simple past and past participle unbuffered)

1. (computing, transitive) To release or flush from a buffer.
   • 2003, Stas Bekman, Eric Cholet, Practical mod_perl

     We set $|=1 to unbuffer the STDERR stream, so we can immediately see the debug output generated by the program.