hello
can some one please help me to redirect the output of a command to both std output and a file. this is little urgent.
sridhar
Use the 'tee' command:
/usr/bin/generate_stdout | tee -a /filename/to/append/sdtout/to.txt | ./my_command
I'm not sure which unix you are using, but if you have the 'tee' command installed, you can use that.
# echo hello | tee outfile
hello
# cat outfile
hello
you can use the -a option to just append to the file
# echo world | tee -a outfile
and now you have
# cat outfile
hello
world
If you dont have tee, and cant install it, then you are probably looking at some crazy file descriptor re-assignment/redirection, of which i'm not entirely keen.