tee

tee [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.

Options

--help, -h

Print help

--append, -a

append to the given FILEs, do not overwrite

--ignore-interrupts, -i

ignore interrupt signals (ignored on non-Unix platforms)

-p

set write error behavior (ignored on non-Unix platforms)

--output-error

set write error behavior

If a FILE is -, it refers to a file named - .

Examples

Copy stdin to each file, and also to stdout:

echo "example" | tee {{path/to/file}}

Append to the given files, do not overwrite:

echo "example" | tee {{[-a|--append]}} {{path/to/file}}

Print stdin to the terminal, and also pipe it into another program for further processing:

echo "example" | tee {{/dev/tty}} | {{xargs printf "[%s]"}}

Create a directory called “example”, count the number of characters in “example”, and write “example” to the terminal:

echo "example" | tee >(xargs mkdir) >(wc {{[-c|--bytes]}})

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.