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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Piping into two processes simultaneously
Message-ID: <17680:Sep1021:08:2890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 90 21:08:28 GMT
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In article <1990Sep06.150939.18741@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> Both tee and processes are perfectly happy with FIFO's if your system
> has them.

Even if your system does have FIFOs, it's a bad idea to use tee to pipe
into two processes at once. If one of the processes blocks, tee will
block after a pipeful.

Using multitee (under BSD) is much more sensible.

---Dan