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Re: tee logs no output if stdout is closed


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: tee logs no output if stdout is closed
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:57:08 +0200
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> If 'tee' was to write to the log file(s) first and then only to stdout, and
> if the input is small (does not need buffering), then its stdin input would 
> show
> up in the output, and this would also be POSIX compliant.

Just put a 'cat >/dev/null' in the pipe.

Andreas.

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