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Old 06-16-2011
Display and write in file in one echo command

Hi All,
I want to display content on command promt and also write in file.
For that iI ahve to write two sentence
echo "XXXXXXX"
echo "XXXXXXXX" >> 1.txt

Is there any way to write in one echo statement
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Old 06-16-2011
Code:
 
echo "XXXXXXXX"  | tee 1.txt
 
man tee

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