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User Commandstee(1)


NAME

 tee - replicate the standard output

SYNOPSIS

 tee [-ai] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

 

The tee utility will copy standard input to standard output, making a copy in zero or more files. tee will not buffer its output. The options determine if the specified files are overwritten or appended to.

OPTIONS

 

The following options are supported.

-a
Append the output to the files rather than overwriting them.
-i
Ignore interrupts.

OPERANDS

 

The following operands are supported:

file
A path name of an output file. Processing of at least 13 file operands will be supported.

USAGE

 

See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of tee when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 231 bytes).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

 

See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of tee: LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

 

The following exit values are returned:

0
The standard input was successfully copied to all output files.
>0
The number of files that could not be opened or whose status could not be obtained.

ATTRIBUTES

 

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWcsu
CSIEnabled

SEE ALSO

 

cat(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5),


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 20 Dec 1996

 
      
      
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