Using tee to create a log

[Alan Dayley]

Cool!  The reason to be a PLUG member is right here!

Alan

At 01:55 PM 7/26/01 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 26 July 2001, Alan Dayley wrote:
>Cool!  I'm glad it worked.
>
>Some follow-on noise, if you wanted to know more...
>
>If you wanted to use tee with your program that writes to stderr, then
you'd do this:
>
>  foo 2>&1 | tee logfile
>
>This runs foo, redirecing foo's stderr to stdout so that it gets piped
normally.  Then we pipe stdout to tee; tee writes everything it reads to
the file and writes it to standard-out.
>
>Add "2>&1" to your bag of tricks, along with "&>".  You'll use it often.
>
>"&>" is really a shorthand for "2>&1 >".  These two commands do the same
thing:
>
>  foo &> logfile            # bash-specific shorthand for...
>  foo 2>&1 > logfile        # this, which works in both bash and ksh
>
>I hope this isn't too much (or too confusing).
>
>        Wayne
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