[PLUG] Correct use of 'tee'

[Wil Cooley]

Also Sprach Eli Stair <eli.stair at gmail.com> on Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:30:16AM PST:
> Pardon for replying without reading the entire thread, but thought
> this may be relevant:
> 
> When you're expecting some set output handling to work, sometimes it
> doesn't occur the way it "should".  One recent example, redirecting
> STDERR/STDOUT from SLES9's rsync is improper for some reason.  You can
> correctly redirect 1> 2> when running it in 'normal' or debug, but the
> verbose mode doesn't work... comes out properly to the command line,
> but when you do 2> /tmp/test.txt your stderr never gets there (or to
> console).
> 
> Sometimes when you're just starting to think you're crazy, it really
> IS something behaving erraticly :)

It is possible for programs to discover and open the controlling tty to
which they are connected, bypassing the standard I/O conventions.

Wil
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