Using tee to create a log

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Autore: Wayne Conrad
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Oggetto: Using tee to create a log
On Thu, 26 July 2001, Alan Dayley wrote:
> How does the piped program know that it is piped? I would think that all
> it knows is that it is outputing to sdtout. Who changes the data in the
> pipe? The shell?


The shell doesn't mess with the data. Instead, a program that cares can use an API to find out if its stdin is connected to a pipe, or to a file, or whatever, and then change its behavior accordingly.