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@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ With `pw` you can: * Make recurring patterns in the stream appear to "freeze" on the screen, using triggers. -* Prevent the overwhelming amount of output from a program to flooding the +* Prevent the overwhelming amount of output from a program from flooding the terminal, while consuming all of that output so that the program isn't blocked. `pw` can pause its display updates entirely. * Juggle multiple shell background jobs that produce output, yet execute - indefinitely without blocking. When `pw` runs as as part of a shell + indefinitely without blocking. When `pw` runs as part of a shell background job, it continues to consume input, process filters and take snapshots, without displaying anything. When put into the foreground again, display resumes. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ command | pw [-i interval] [-l interval] [-n number-of-lines] [-dEB] .I pw stands for Pipe Watch, a utility that continuously reads lines of text from a pipe or pipe-like source, passes them through a FIFO buffer, and -maintains a display based on the occasional sampling the contents of the +maintains a display based on the occasional sampling of the contents of the FIFO buffer, with useful features such as triggering and filtering. Upon successful startup, |