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Subject: Re: copying standard input to standard output
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On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:01 pm, Noah wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am wanting to copy standard output to a file.
>
> I know that 'tee' will do this fine.
>
> blah | tee it
>
> but I am find that on some occasions processes will not output
> when pipping to tee.
>
> other than screen what are some applications that could
> capture standard output and dump to a file?
>
Could be that the output you're looking at is not stdout but 
stderr.

If you using csh (or tcsh) shell then try:
% blah |& tee it

Malcolm

> cheers,
>
>
> Noah
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