Jenkins console output not in realtime

Question

Pretty new to Jenkins and I have simple yet annoying problem. When I run job (Build) on Jenkins I am triggering ruby command to execute my test script.

Problem is Je

Answer 1

For some commands, including tee a the best choice for unbuffering is a program called unbuffer from expect package.

Usage example:

instead of

somecommand | tee /some/path

do

somecommand | unbuffer -p tee /some/path

Sources and more info:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/11337310/2693875
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/25375/53245