Day: August 13, 2010

tee to a file descriptor $ tee >(cat – >&2) the tee command does fine with file names, but not so much with file descriptors, such as &2 (stderr). This uses process redirection to tee to the specified descriptor.

In the sample output, it\’s being used to tee to stderr, which is connected with the terminal, and to wc -l, which is also outputting to the terminal. The result is the output of bash –version followed by the linecount

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by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)

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