Stream a file or stdin one line at a time with a delay

Install this tool using pip:

$ pip install stream-delay

Feed content to this tool either by piping to standard input or using one or more filenames.

The tool will output the data from those inputs one line at a time with a 100ms delay between each line.

You can use -d 500 to change the delay to another value expressed in milliseconds.

Examples:

• cat myfile.txt | stream-delay - will stream from that file with a 100ms delay between each line
• stream-delay myfile.txt - same as above, this time using the filename
• stream-delay myfile.txt myfile2.txt - streams from the first file, then the second file
• stream-delay myfile.txt -d 1000 - streams from that file with a one second delay between each line

To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd stream-delay
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Or if you are using pipenv:

pipenv shell

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest