tee(1)

✨ tee(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to tee — it's a General Commands Manual situation and honestly this one is SO iconic. it's tiny, it's useful, it's literally the plumbing of your whole terminal aesthetic. let's get into it 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tee — copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output. yes it does both. it's a multitasker. main character energy fr fr 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tee [-h|--help] [-a|--append] [-i|--ignore-interrupts] [-p ]
[--output-error] [-V|--version] [file]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.

that's it. that's the whole vibe. stuff goes in, stuff comes out in more than one place at the same time. like when you send a screenshot to the group chat AND save it to your camera roll. no cap. 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — print help. your bestie when you're lost ✨
• -a, --append — append to the given FILEs, do not overwrite. it adds to the end instead of yeeting what was already there 🙈
• -i, --ignore-interrupts — ignore interrupt signals (ignored on non-Unix platforms). lowkey it just doesn't flinch when you try to interrupt it. note: this one is ignored on non-Unix platforms, so don't come for me if you're not on Unix 💀
• -p — set write error behavior (ignored on non-Unix platforms). again: ignored on non-Unix platforms.
• --output-error — set write error behavior. this is the one with ✨choices✨, and the possible values are:
  • warn: produce warnings for errors writing to any output
  • warn-nopipe: produce warnings for errors that are not pipe errors (ignored on non-unix platforms)
  • exit: exit on write errors to any output
  • exit-nopipe: exit on write errors to any output that are not pipe errors (equivalent to exit on non-unix platforms)
• -V, --version — print version. gotta know what you're running, periodt 👑
• [file] — the file(s) you're writing to, if you feel like naming one. optional, like a good outfit accessory 🌈

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⭐ EXTRA ⭐

If a FILE is -, it refers to a file named -.

read that again bestie. it's not a special "stdin/stdout" thing here — it is literally a file whose name is a single dash. the way that could trip you up... 😭 just so you know.

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💜 VERSION 💜

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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and that's the whole page, bestie — this gorgeous little manpage is brought to you by tee (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0, straight out of the uutils coreutils crew. go pipe something into two places at once and slay 💖✨🎀