Can't pipe infinite data to lolcat

[tyilo]

With cat you can do this to get boring infinite white text:

cat /dev/random | base64 | cat

However, when doing the same with lolcat, it never shows any awesome rainbow colored output:

cat /dev/random | base64 | lolcat

[m-o-e]

cat /dev/urandom | base64 | lolcat works for me.

[p-s-]

I havethe same problem,

cat /dev/urandom | base64 | lolcat

doesn't work for me, no output.

This issue is closed, i just found it because I'm having troubles running another program in terminal, and getting awesome rainbow colored output while piping it through lolcat ...

why does it work for you, @m-o-e ?
Are there settings in terminal I have to adjust?!

[m-o-e]

There are certain versions of base64 that buffer all input before doing anything.

Does this one work for you: cat /dev/urandom | hexdump | lolcat ?

[p-s-]

thank you for helping a newbie @m-o-e : )
this one works for me!

So I guess https://github.com/houeland/kolproxy from @houeland doesn't give me live-lolcat greatness, because of its "buffer design"?! It's a shame 🙈