Re: [SLUG] tee(1): Pipe fitting.

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:05:25PM +0800, Visser, Martin (SNO) (Martin.Visser@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> I guess in the 1st example, $jillslist is greedy and gobbles all of find's
> -print output leaving nothing for tee to eat.

Correct, redirection has to be greedy ;-))!
Otherwise you would still end up with stuff all over the screen if you

 echo blah.foo > foo.bar


Isn't this the reason why tee was "invented" in the first place?

     stdout-------------------file
                   |
                   |
                   |
                   |
                   |
                 input
              

jhs



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