[NTLUG:Discuss] Copying a file to TWO destinations as the same time..
Fred James
fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net
Sun Jan 29 00:18:05 CST 2006
Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way..or possible way to copy a file to multiple
> locations at the same time? I know that TEE can do something
> similar..but is there a way to copy or dd and send the information
> through 'tee'?
>
> Is there another utility that one could explore to possibly accomplish
> this?
>
Richard Geoffrion
Tee should do it - it takes from stdin and writes to stdout plus a file
(or files), and stdout can be redirected. Is that what you wanted to
do, or did I get that wrong?
Regards
Fred James
Snipped from 'man tee'
"tee - read from standard input and write to standard output and files"
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