Using tee to create a log

[Kevin Buettner]

On Jul 26, 11:25am, Alan Dayley wrote:

> I have a command line utility that spits out data on the screen as it runs.
>  I want to capture this data to a "log" file so I can read it later.  I
> have been told the tee command will do this for me but I can't seem to get
> the command line correct as the log file is always empty.
> 
> The man and info pages are not very helpful to me since I am just learning
> this piping commands stuff.

Do it like this:

    myscript | tee logfile

You might also find the following useful:

    myscript >logfile &
    tail -f logfile

Kevin