shell question

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Matthew Ryan Fuerst on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:30:50PM -0400:
> Silly shell question -
> 
> Is there a way to log the output of a command into a file as well as to the
> terminal?
> 
> I am planning on building apache from source, and want to capture the output to
> afile for future reference, but would also like to see it on the screen..
> 
> I thought of something silly like
> 
> ./configure >> apache.output >> echo
> 
> but I don't know if that will do the trick....

I believe you are looking for the program called "tee".  "man tee"
for usage instructions.

You can also "./configure >> apache.output" in one window and "tail
-f apache.output" in another.


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