- Writing standard output from the
ls
program to the file1 file:
ls > file1
- Writing error output from the
ls
program to the file1 file:
ls 2> file1
- Writing both standard and error output from the
ls
program to the file1 file:
ls &> file1
- Writing standard output from the
ls
program to the file1 file and error output from this command to the file2 file:
ls 1> file1 2> file2
|
" symbol and connects the standard output of one command to the standard input of another. The UNIX or Linux tee
application does what its name suggests if you're familiar with various plumbing connectors—it splits its input into two different streams. One of these remains standard output, while the other is a file whose name you specify on the command line. Therefore, you can use the combination of a pipe and the tee
command to combine redirecting the output of a program into a file and see that output.For example, the following command displays both the output of the
ls /etc
command and captures the standard output of that command in the ls.out file:ls /etc | tee ls.out |
You can also redirect standard error and standard output via a pipe on the command line by using the "
|&
" characters. For example, the following command both displays the output and any error messages of the ls /etc
command and uses the tee
command to capture the output and error messages in the ls.out file: ls /etc |& tee ls.out |
You can combine redirection of standard output and standard error via a pipe, the
tee
command, and your favorite shell's interactive mode to capture all input, output, and error messages to a file using a command such as the following:bash -i |& tee output_file.txt
Source: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-screenshots1/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw13LX-ScrnShotsdth-LX from William von Hagen