Re: cat output to two files?

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: 23 Feb 2004 21:40:58 GMT

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:08:22 -0500, Stuart Herd staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:19:42 +0100, Uli Wachowitz wrote:
>> Stuart Herd <sherd@ca.inter.net1> wrote:
>>> I need to have the output go to 2 and 3
>>> #cat 1 >2 >3
>>> This obviously does not work as it is already in 2
>> what about 'tee'?
>> cat 1 | tee 2 > 3
> perhaps i shouldn't have used cat to illustrate my example. :-) I am
> trying to get the output of a command into two different log files

What makes you think the standard output from cat is any different from
the standard output from any other command? tee works with anything
that writes to stdout--it'd be pretty bloody useless if it didn't.

> convert "${files}" -resize 800x600 -colorspace rgb "${files}.jpg"
> >>$RESULTS >>$log

convert "{$files}" -foo -bar "${files}.jpg" | tee -a $RESULTS >> $LOG

This looks more complicated than what Uli wrote, but it's conceptually
the same. HTH, 

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