You could do this: at the beginning of your script, put
(make sure it's empty first). Save the PID ($!), run your usual script with stdout redirected to the logfile (either by line or by exec 1>$logfile). At the end of your script, kill the tail (you saved the PID, didn't you?)
Greetings to everybody. I would like to know if I can use the pipe and command tee to read from edited file and to write to him e.g. "sed '{s_A_B_}' file | tee file". :confused: I know it doesn't work with > but I don't know anything about it with tee. Thank you for your help. :) (1 Reply)
hello
how to append the hostname to each line of a file that is tee'd
for example:
tail -f file1 | tee file2
Iwant file2 to have the same new lines of file1 but with the hostname at the end or the beginning of each line.
btw, is there more proper method than: tail -f file1 | tee... (1 Reply)
Someone recently advised me to use the tee command to write to standard out.
Why would you pipe your commands to
tee -a <filename>
rather than just using
>> <filename>
?
For example:
date|tee -a myfile
seems to be the same as
date >> myfile
Is there a benefit to... (5 Replies)
I have been using the command tee to store the output to a file and also write on the terminal. However I would need to put the program in the background although I would still need to see the file being updated like it was doing when using tee.
Any suggestions on how to look at the log file... (3 Replies)
script1:
#!/bin/ksh
more test.txt
script2: calling the script1
#!/bin/ksh
/tmp/script1.sh 2>&1 | tee tee.log
where test.txt contains ~1200 lines.
When I execute the script2 the more command does not print pagewise it goes to the end of the line, when I remove the tee command it... (4 Replies)
Greetings!
My apologies if this has been answered elsewhere before. What I have is a function (as below) set up to append to either an error log or info log based upon input.
myLOGGER ()
{
if ]; then
logfile=$elog
lastERROR="$1" #used elsewhere in my script
else... (2 Replies)
In the current directory , I have seven files .
But when I use the following command , it lists eight files ( 7 files + file_list.xtx)
ls -1 | tee file_list.xtx | while read line; do echo $line ; done
Does the tee command create the file_list.xtx file first and then executes the ls -1... (1 Reply)
Hi Everybody! First post! Totally noobie.
I'm using the terminal to read a poorly formatted book.
The text file contains, in the middle of paragraphs, hyphenation to split words that are supposed to be on multiple pages. It looks ve -- ry much like this.
I was hoping to use grep -v " -- "... (5 Replies)
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 and I manually updated my coreutils so that "tee" is now on version 8.27
I was running a script using bash where there is some write to pipe error at some point causing the tee command to exit abruptly while the script continues to run. The newer version of tee seems to prevent... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: stompadon
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tee
TEE(1) User Commands TEE(1)NAME
tee - read from standard input and write to standard output and files
SYNOPSIS
tee [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.
-a, --append
append to the given FILEs, do not overwrite
-i, --ignore-interrupts
ignore interrupt signals
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
If a FILE is -, copy again to standard output.
AUTHOR
Written by Mike Parker, Richard M. Stallman, and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report tee bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for tee is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and tee programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'tee invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 TEE(1)