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Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness
From: |
Don Kitchen |
Subject: |
Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:45:26 -0700 (PDT) |
--- tee.1 2005-06-06 00:11:04.000000000 -0700
+++ tee.1.new 2005-06-06 00:09:16.000000000 -0700
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\" Add any additional description here
.PP
-Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.
+Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output. Since there is
only one standard out, it can only be piped to one program. However, tee can
send output to a "file" that is a fifo, which can then be read by some other
program.
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-append\fR
append to the given FILEs, do not overwrite
@@ -42,3 +42,11 @@
.B info coreutils tee
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.
+.SH EXAMPLES
+cat file1 | sort | tee file1.sorted | uniq > file1.uniq
+.PP
+mkfifo fifo
+.br
+cat fifo | uniq > file1.uniq &
+.br
+cat file1 | sort | tee file.sorted fifo | grep text > file1.grep
- Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness,
Don Kitchen <=
- Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness, Eric Blake, 2006/08/28
- Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness, Eric Blake, 2006/08/29
- Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness, The Wanderer, 2006/08/29
- Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness, Jim Meyering, 2006/08/29
- Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness, The Wanderer, 2006/08/29
- Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness, Jim Meyering, 2006/08/30
- Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness, mwoehlke, 2006/08/30
- Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness, The Wanderer, 2006/08/30
- reply-to set to list (was: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness), Bob Proulx, 2006/08/30
Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness, Jim Meyering, 2006/08/29