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Re: Pass-through filter with logging


Thanks a lot!

I was sure it's somewhere there. Love bash and Unix.

From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spk.agilent.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Pass-through filter with logging
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:48:40 -0700

On 2007-03-21, B. S. wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to do the following:
>
> lynx -source $url > logged_file
> tidy -asxml -q < logged_file
>
> in a more elegant way like:
>
> lynx -source $url | log_pass_through logged_file | tidy -asxml -q
>
> I believe (maybe not true) that the latter should be more performant since
> the file is not needed to be read.
>
> The question is: Does such command ("log_pass_through") exist by default in
> Cygwin?


Yes. It's called 'tee'. See the tee(1) man page.

Gary

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Gary Johnson                 | Agilent Technologies
garyjohn@spk.agilent.com     | Mobile Broadband Division
                             | Spokane, Washington, USA

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