On 11/14/2015 05:00 PM, Tim Shaw wrote: > What I would like to do is add a parameter to tee, "-2", that copies to > stderr in addition to stdout, just like "-" > copies to stdout twice. So the code becomes > echo big long complicated error message goes here | tee -2 > Simple, eh?
Having an additional option to refer to a certain file descriptor sounds worthwhile and tempting. OTOH, you can already refer to /dev/stderr as a file name for the 2nd file descriptor already on many/most systems: echo big long complicated error message goes here | tee /dev/stderr Does this work for you? > Where's the tee source? I know this would not be POSIX compliant, but it > would work for me, and I hate having to rewrite > everything from scratch for trivial stuff like this. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/README-hacking Have a nice day, Berny
