bin/99585: [PATCH] Add option to tee(1) to also copy to standard error

Thomas David Rivers rivers at dignus.com
Thu Jun 29 16:12:50 UTC 2006


> 
> >>Description:
> >	I recently found myself in a situation where having tee(1) copy to 
> >	standard error and standard output at the same time would be useful, 
> >	so I implemented it.
> >>How-To-Repeat:
> >	Find yourself in said situation.
> >>Fix:
> >	Diff below.
> 
> Why not use a standard utility (tee itself in this case)?
> 
>   genoutput | tee /dev/stderr | tee foo
> 
> copies the stdout of `genoutput' to stderr and to file foo.  This can be
> generalized to any number of copies on any numbers of file descriptors
> or files.
> 

Uhh...

What's wrong with:

	genoutput 2>&1 | tee foo

	- Dave Rivers -

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