HOWTO: Use the tee Command
I think this is the last command in the redirection series. I’ve written about redirection and piping, which are great tools to either send command output somewhere other than normal, or to make the output of one command the input of another. What if you wanted to do two things with the output of a command such as display it on the screen and write it to a file?
Enter the tee command. Just like a tee junction in a water pipe, the tee command will allow you to send the output of a command to the screen as well as a file.
Consider the command
ls | tee ls.txt
This command will display the contents of the current directory to me on my screen, as well as write the same information to an ls.txt file in the current directory. Very handy at times.
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