A simple matter of…

Techie one this. I wanted to do this: tail -f filename | awk ‘{ …; exit}’ However this didn’t work – originally I thought awk had the pipe open, but it turned out that actually it was the tail hanging around and not dying (why it doesn’t acknowledge the SIGPIPE that I think it’ll get [...]

Well, I’ve bought a PVR – selected on [http://popey.com Alan]‘s advice. Overall I’m pretty happy, it was always going to be a tradeoff between not having to spend much time on it and non-ideal behaviour. The new firmware will fix up some of the missing features (such as the fact that once you have started [...]