Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:20:12 GMT From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/99585: [PATCH] Add option to tee(1) to also copy to standard error Message-ID: <200606291620.k5TGKChr079848@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/99585; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au, dcp1990@neptune.atopia.net Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@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 - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com
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