On Thursday 13 March 2003 23:11, shlomo solomon wrote: > Hi, > > I have a script that puts a lot of output on the screen. I want to look for > a particular string in the output, so I pipe the output to GREP. That works > fine, but here's the problem. I also want to see the output on the > terminal, and the pipe to GREP means I only get to see the line that > matches the string I'm looking for - not **ALL** the screen output. Is > there a way to see output on the screen AND pipe it to GREP at the same > time? Use "tee". Kludge but works. > > BTW - I have a partial solution and that's to pipe to a file and then do 2 > separate operations - cat the file to the screen and GREP the file to find > what I'm looking for. The problem is that I then see the output only after > the script has finished running - not **online**. > > Any ideas? - TIA Two solutions : - Pipe the output to "less" - it has a search facility - press "/", enter the pattern and here you go - "Tee" the output to the terminal ( it is Unix clone, after all, each device is a file). my_script | tee terminal_device | grep some_string
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