[clug] Next in my series of "how to do things in /bin/sh that you probably shouldn't".

[Kevin Pulo]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:39:53AM +1000, Andrew Janke wrote:

> Suppose that I want to send all output from a shell script to a
> logfile as well as displaying it (within the script). To simply send
> everything in a shell script I can just do this somewhere near the top
> of the script:
> 
>    exec > logfile.txt 2>&1
> 
> But I am greedy, as such it is a pity you can't just do this:
> 
>    exec | tee logfile 2>&1

Not that I've tried it, but using process substitution to get bash to
automatically do the pipe magic might work?

    exec > >(tee logfile.txt) 2>&1

Kev.

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