[ILUG] plumbing

[Stephen Shirley]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:33:20PM +0100, Ulysees wrote:
> thats exactly what i was thinking
> 
> i need something that writes to the stdin of program1 & program2
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dermot Daly" <dermot.daly at itsmobile.com>
> To: "ILUG" <ilug at linux.ie>
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 2:42 PM
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] plumbing
> 
> 
> Huh ?  Doesn't tee write to a file and stdout ?  - Doesn't this not just
> create a load of files called program1 program2....?
> 

Exactly. All the solutions suggested so far either won't work, or won't
do what you want. What you really want is something like this:

	cat myfile | tee >(prog1) | tee >(prog2) | ... | tee >(progN-1) | progN

Note this is in bash.

Steve
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