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Date:      Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:37:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        David Smithson <david@customfilmeffects.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: question: sending to stdout AND file
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210181536530.18356-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <014101c276dd$4681b1f0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com>

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, David Smithson wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:33:46 -0700
> From: David Smithson <david@customfilmeffects.com>
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: question: sending to stdout AND file
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> This question is not specifically FreeBSD related.
> 
> How do I redirect output to a file *and* stdout simultaneously.  My
> particular want is to view the output of a script while also logging the
> output to a text file.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> --
> David Smithson - Systems Administrator
> Custom Film Effects (http://www.customfilmeffects.com)
> 

One way is to use the tee command, e.g.:

[johnnyb@zappa johnnyb]$ ls | tee listing.txt

will send the results of the ls command to STDOUT and also to the file 
listing.txt.

HTH - JB

#  John Bleichert 
#  http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg


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