tee to a file descriptor

2010-08-13 1 min read bash Linux
tee to a file descriptor 1 $ tee >(cat – >&2) the tee command does fine with file names, but not so much with file descriptors, such as &2. This uses process redirection to tee to the specified descriptor. In the sample output, it’s being used to tee to stderr, which is connected with the terminal, and to wc -l, which is also outputting to the terminal. The result is the output of bash –version followed by the linecount Continue reading