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

[Thomas David Rivers]

The following reply was made to PR bin/99585; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers at dignus.com>
To: bde at zeta.org.au, dcp1990 at neptune.atopia.net
Cc: freebsd-bugs at freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/99585: [PATCH] Add option to tee(1) to also copy to standard error
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:13:10 -0400 (EDT)

 > 
 > >>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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