using tee program with tar output

Ray Wallace wallace at ynotme.enet.dec.com
Sat May 11 01:32:15 AEST 1991


In article <26840 at adm.brl.mil>, sean at dmr.asa.com (Sean Baker) writes...
>I'm trying to redirect the output of tar to a file.
> 
>I can do this fine in the csh by using:
> 
>	tar cvf tarfile /tmp |& tee tar.out

First, in csh can't this be done without tee? Like this -
	tar cvf tarfile /tmp >& tar.out

>But how do I do this with the Bourne shell?  I can't seem to
>get both stdin and stdout sent to the tee program?
In sh it is -
	tar cvf tarfile /tmp > tar.out 2>&1

Either that or (being fairly new to Unix) I missunderstood the question.

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