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Commands using tee

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some_command | tee >(command1) >(command2) >(command3) ... | command4
2009-02-17 01:55:07
User: SiegeX
Functions: tee
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Use tee + process substitution to split STDOUT to multiple commands

Using process substitution, we can 'trick' tee into sending a command's STDOUT to an arbitrary number of commands. The last command (command4) in this example will get its input from the pipe.

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find . -type f -exec grep -l XXX {} \;|tee /tmp/fileschanged|xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/XXX/YYY/g'
2009-02-16 02:55:23
User: drossman
Functions: find grep perl tee xargs
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Change string in many files at once and more.

Find all files that contain string XXX in them, change the string from XXX to YYY, make a backup copy of the file and save a list of files changed in /tmp/fileschanged.

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ping google.com | tee ping-output.txt
2009-01-29 10:26:59
User: root
Functions: ping tee
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Ping a URL sending output to file and STDOUT

The tee (as in "T" junction) command is very useful for redirecting output to two places.

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