chunky

chunky reads from stdin and writes to stdout in chunks, either when its buffer gets full or a timeout passes with no new input. It can also spawn a new process for each chunk that it outputs and pass the chunk to this process's stdin.

Dependencies:

chunky is written in JavaScript for [node](https://github.com/ry/node).

Getting Started:

$ git clone git://github.com/cwarden/chunky.git
$ cd chunky
$ git submodule update --init
$ ./chunky.js -h

Usage:

Usage: chunky [OPTION]... -- [COMMAND] [ARG]...

chunky will read from stdin, buffer the input until the buffer is
full or until no input has been received for the number of seconds
specified by the timeout.

If a COMMAND is specified, it will be run each time the buffer is
written and will be passed the input.  Otherwise, stdin will be
written to stdout.

Options:
  --timeout, -t <i> Timeout (default: 3)
  --buffer, -b <i> Buffer Size (default: 4096)
  --debug, -d
  --help, -h
  --version, -v

Example

$ (jot 10 1 10; sleep 3; jot 10 10 1) | ./chunky.js --timeout 2 -- sort -n
1
2
3
4
5
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8
9
10
1
2
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10