NAME

tee − replicate the standard output

SYNOPSIS

tee [−ai] [file...]

AVAILABILITY

SUNWcsu

DESCRIPTION

The tee utility will copy standard input to standard output, making a copy in zero or more files.  tee will not buffer its output.  The options determine if the specified files are overwritten or appended to. 

OPTIONS

The following options are supported. 

−a Append the output to the files rather than overwriting them. 

−i Ignore interrupts. 

OPERANDS

The following operands are supported:

file A path name of an output file.  Processing of at least 13 file operands will be supported. 

ENVIRONMENT

See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of tee: LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH. 

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0 The standard input was successfully copied to all output files. 

>0 The number of files that could not be opened or whose status could not be obtained. 

SEE ALSO

cat(1), environ(5)

SunOS 5.5.1  —  Last change: 1 Feb 1995