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tee

read from standard input and write to standard output and files

Synopsis

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


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Use netcat as a proxy to log traffic

Use socat, you don't need the pipes and fifos

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How to tee to stderr? (multiple sinks in one pipeline)

some_source | tee >(sink_1) | sink_2

>( ) is process substitution.

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How to combine the tee command with interactive scripts to log the results?

Use "script" - typescript of terminal session.

$ script --help

From the man page of script :

 script makes a typescript of everything printed on your
 terminal.  It is useful for students who need a hard?
 copy record of an interactive session as proof of an
 assignment, as the typescript file can be printed out
 later with lpr(1).
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Alternative to the tee command without STDOUT

There is not directly a program to do that (this is pretty much the only time that it would be useful), but you could easily write your own. If you do not want to program, you could also write a simple shell script that does the same thing: cat > $1. This is different from putting it inline (as sawdust suggested) because the sudo will apply to the entire script, including the redirection.

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Using tee to pipe ls and grep output into tail command without a script

REVISED!

had overread that you only want the last line of each logfile ...

The command you need is xargs not tee:

 ls | grep '2011_.._.._.._35_.*' | xargs -n 1 -- tail -1

or

 ls -1 2011_??_??_??_35_* | xargs -n 1 -- tail -1

This calls the command tail -1 for each file that passes the grep command (1st case) or that is found by the ls command (2nd case). Note that this will not work if a file contains spaces or newline. If you need an answer for that case, add a comment.

EDIT For your comment:

ls -1 2011_??_??_??_35_* | xargs -n 1 -I FILE -- sh -c 'echo ; echo "FILE"; tail -1 "FILE"'

A little bit more complicated, but also handles files with spaces in the name.

Each "FILE" in the command sequence echo ; echo "FILE"; tail -1 "FILE" will be replaced by a line that ls outputs. This command sequence will be passed to a shell and then executed.

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linux pipeline/tee process sequence

They will execute in parallel if they are capable of doing so. The tee command will feed input to both commands as it gets it. This will make them "ready to run" if they were blocked on input, and then the OS wills schedule them on whatever cores it has available. This is not multithreading because that takes place within a process. This is multiprocess operation.

description

Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.
-a
, --append

append to the given FILEs, do not overwrite

-i, --ignore-interrupts

ignore interrupt signals

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

If a FILE is -, copy again to standard output.

copyright

Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

reporting bugs

Report tee bugs to bug-coreutils[:at:]gnu[:dot:]org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report tee translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>


see also

The full documentation for tee is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and tee programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils 'tee invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.


author

Written by Mike Parker, Richard M. Stallman, and David MacKenzie.

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