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TEE(1)							      General Commands Manual							    TEE(1)

NAME
tee - pipe fitting SYNOPSIS
tee [ -i ] [ -a ] [ file ] ... DESCRIPTION
Tee transcribes the standard input to the standard output and makes copies in the files. Option -i ignores interrupts; option -a causes the output to be appended to the files rather than overwriting them. TEE(1)

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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. GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report tee translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> AUTHOR
Written by Mike Parker, Richard M. Stallman, and David MacKenzie. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 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 8.22 June 2014 TEE(1)
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