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Old 03-11-2013
Help with tee command

In the current directory , I have seven files .
But when I use the following command , it lists eight files ( 7 files + file_list.xtx)
Code:
 
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 command ?
My understanding was:
1. First the ls -1 command will get executed listing the 7 files
2. Entries of all th seven files will be written in a new file created by the tee command (file_list.xtx)
3. The output of ls -1 command ( entries of 7 files only ) will ve passed to the while loop for further processing


Is my concept wrong ?

Thanks
Kumarjit.
# 2  
Old 03-11-2013
It doesn't have to finish ls before running tee. They end up running simultaneously -- literally so if you have multiple cores.

The easy way to fix this would be to put flie_list.xtx in a different directory.
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