LongRunningPlugins.md

Long running plugins

Streaming through stdout

Output ~~~ from long running scripts to render everything above it and since the last ~~~. Example:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
COUNTER=0
count() {
  COUNTER=$((COUNTER+1));
  echo "$COUNTER"
  echo '---'
  echo "Some menu entry"
  echo "~~~"
}
while [ $COUNTER -lt 3 ]; do
  count
  sleep 1
done

The output looks like this:

1
---
Some menu entry
~~~
2
---
Some menu entry
~~~
3
---
Some menu entry
~~~