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+'\" Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+'\"
+'\" This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms
+'\" of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
+'\" There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+[NAME]
+stdbuf \- Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams.
+[DESCRIPTION]
+.\" Add any additional description here
+[EXAMPLES]
+.B tail -f access.log | stdbuf -oL cut -d \(aq \(aq -f1 | uniq
+.br
+This will immedidately display unique entries from access.log
+[BUGS]
+On GLIBC platforms, specifying a buffer size, i.e. using fully buffered mode
+will result in undefined operation.