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

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Visser, Martin SNO <Martin.Visser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As an aside how does one do a "tee" to say two commands? For instance, in
> pseudo-shell

> ls | tee ( wc ) | (grep foobar | wc )

Here's one way (assuming you're not trying to list /tmp of course):

fifo=/tmp/fifo$$
mkfifo $fifo || exit
ls | tee $fifo | wc&
set -- "$(< $fifo grep foobar | wc)"
wait
rm $fifo
echo "$*"
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