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From: mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: I/O Redirection question
Message-ID: <193@bria.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 91 21:23:28 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.144844.28800@riacs.edu>
Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike
Organization: MGI Group International, Los Angeles, CA
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In an article, dwsmith@loki.arc.NASA.GOV (David Smith) writes:
|I have a question regarding I/O redirection.  I have a program in which
|writes to stdout and stderr.  I have redirected both of these to a file.
|
|Now comes the problem.  I need to capture stdout in a file along with
|stderr, but I also need stdout to go to the terminal for prompting of
|input.  Is this possible?  If so, how does one do this?

Try:

	$ [someprogram] 2>>somefile | tee /dev/tty >>somefile

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