On Thu, 26 July 2001, 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.

This should do it:

% your_utility | tee output.log

Mind you, 'tee' only works on stdout so if your utilties output is really on 
stderr, it won't capture it by default.
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