Monthly Archives: May 2010

The tee command will redirect standard output to multiple locations. tee is named after the T-shaped plumbing connections. When one uses tee it redirects its input to both the standard output and the file name you give as an argument. … Continue reading →

Piping allows one to chain the standard output of one command to the standard input of another. This is done by specifying the two commands in order separated by a (|) sometimes called a “pipe”. Compound commands constructed this way … Continue reading →

Redirect the standard error stream (stderr) using the 2> operator. Follow a command with this operator and the name of a file the error stream should be written to. Example… Redirect stderr from apropos shell bash to the command.error file… $ … Continue reading →