I would like to pipe standard output of a program while keeping it on screen.
With a simple example (echo
use here is just for illustration purpose) :
$ echo 'ee' | foo
ee
<- the output I would like to see
I know tee could copy stdout to file but that's not what I want.$ echo 'ee' | tee output.txt | foo
I tried$ echo 'ee' | tee /dev/stdout | foo
but it does not work since tee output to /dev/stdout
is piped to foo
Redirecting stdout and stderr to a file: The I/O streams can be redirected by putting the n> operator in use, where n is the file descriptor number. For redirecting stdout, we use “1>” and for stderr, “2>” is added as an operator.
If you want to redirect both “stdout” and “stderr”, then use “&>” . Now we will use this redirection symbol to redirect the output into the file.
“tee” command is one of the most valuable tools that helps a Linux user redirect the output of a command to a file and screen. This article discussed the primary usage of “tee” for redirecting output to screen, single, or multiple files.
The command is called tee.
Here is a solution that works at on any Unix / Linux implementation, assuming it cares to follow the POSIX
standard. It works on some non Unix environments like cygwin
too.
echo 'ee' | tee /dev/tty | foo
Reference: The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7 IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, §10.1:
/dev/tty
Associated with the process group of that process, if any. It is useful for programs or shell procedures that wish to be sure of writing messages to or reading data from the terminal no matter how output has been redirected. It can also be used for applications that demand the name of a file for output, when typed output is desired and it is tiresome to find out what terminal is currently in use. In each process, a synonym for the controlling terminal
Some environments like Google Colab have been reported not to implement /dev/tty
while still having their tty
command returning a usable device. Here is a workaround:
tty=$(tty) echo 'ee' | tee $tty | foo
or with an ancient Bourne shell:
tty=`tty` echo 'ee' | tee $tty | foo
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