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tee

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 20 Dec 1996
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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 Appends the output to the files rather than overwriting them.

-i Ignores 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 ( 2 **31
 bytes).  

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of tee: LANG, LC_ALL, 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
Interface StabilityStandard

 

SEE ALSO

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


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
OPERANDS
USAGE
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
EXIT STATUS
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO

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