tee - Man Page

read from standard input and write to standard output and files

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

tee [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Description

Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.

-a,  --append

append to the given FILEs, do not overwrite

-i,  --ignore-interrupts

ignore interrupt signals

-p

operate in a more appropriate MODE with pipes.

--output-error[=MODE]

set behavior on write error.  See MODE below

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

MODE determines behavior with write errors on the outputs

warn

diagnose errors writing to any output

warn-nopipe

diagnose errors writing to any output not a pipe

exit

exit on error writing to any output

exit-nopipe

exit on error writing to any output not a pipe

The default MODE for the -p option is 'warn-nopipe'. With "nopipe" MODEs, exit immediately if all outputs become broken pipes. The default operation when --output-error is not specified, is to exit immediately on error writing to a pipe, and diagnose errors writing to non pipe outputs.

Author

Written by Mike Parker, Richard M. Stallman, and David MacKenzie.

Reporting Bugs

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See Also

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/tee>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) tee invocation'

Referenced By

libpipeline(3), pee(1), rc(1), tee(2).

September 2024 GNU coreutils 9.5