Running long script in the background

[Erik Max Francis]

wattersmt at gmail.com wrote:

> Web pages can show output as it's sent.  For testing I created a
> script on the server that untars a 600 meg volume, I can see each file
> name show up in my browser instantly, just like it should.  The other
> script I'm trying to run won't show anything until the entire process
> is complete and it's just a bunch of echo statements in a for loop,
> I'm not sure why they behave differently.

In a word:  buffering.

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