On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 03:47:38 pm you wrote:
> On 2/9/11 12:40 PM, McKown, John wrote:
> > tee can output to multiple files? The man page implies only a single
> > file.
>
> Hmmm...maybe you need a new enough tee also:
>
> SYNOPSIS
> tee [OPTION]... [FILE]...
>
> DESCRIPTION
> Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.
Doh! I should have remembered that. So the functions I wrote could have been
implemented as:
Ntee() {
tee "$@" >/dev/null
}
Just goes to show that there's usually several ways to do anything in Linux.
I focused on doing it entirely in bash.
- MacK.
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