Re: Enhancement request for tee - please add the option to not quit on SIGPIPE when someother files are still opened

[Pádraig Brady]

On 20/11/15 23:58, Jirka Hladky wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Bob Proulx <address@hidden 
>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>> 
>>     Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>     > I'm not convinced that a new --no-stdout option is warranted:
>>     > why not simply redirect stdout to the last fifo?
>>     >
>>     >   cat /dev/zero | head -c500M \
>>     >     | (/dev/shm/AAA/coreutils-8.24/src/tee -p \
>>     >          $d/fifo1 $d/fifo2 $d/fifo3 > $d/fifo4 ) 2>&1 \
>>     >     | > tee $d/run.log &
>> 
>>     Of course!  It was so obvious that we missed seeing it!  Simply do a
>>     normal redirect of stdout to the process.  Thanks Bernhard for
>>     pointing this out.
>> 
>>     This is also true of the >(process substitutions) too.
>> 
>>       echo foo | tee >(sleep 2 && cat) > >(sleep 5 && cat)
>> 
>>     This really argues against any need for --no-stdout.  Because if one
>>     wants --no-stdout it means one has forgotten about a normal
>>     redirection.
>
> Yes, *this is* the solution I was looking for! 
> 
> tee -p </dev/zero >(head -c1 | wc -c ) > >(head -c10M | wc -c)
> 
> Thanks to everybody to take part in the discussion and finally coming up with 
> the solution. 
> 
> Could we please add this example to tee's manual page into the EXAMPLE 
> section? If there is anything I can do to make it happen please let me know. 

Yes it works well.
I've added the construct to the existing tee examples in the attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

tee-combining-process-substitutions-doc.patch
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