How to tee to stderr?
BashStderrTeeBash Problem Overview
I want to split stdout
so that it is printed both to stdout
and stderr
. This sounds like a job for tee
but the syntax is evading me -
./script.sh | tee stderr
Of course, how should stderr
actually be referred to here?
Bash Solutions
Solution 1 - Bash
The only cross platform method I found which works in both interactive and non-interactive shells is:
command | tee >(cat 1>&2)
The argument to tee is a file or file handle. Using process substitution we send the output to a process. In the process =cat=, we redirect stdout to stderr. The shell (bash/ksh) is responsible for setting up the 1 and 2 file descriptors.
Solution 2 - Bash
./script.sh | tee /dev/fd/2
Note that this is dependant on OS support, not any built-in power in tee, so isn't universal (but will work on MacOS, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, probably others).
Solution 3 - Bash
./script.sh 2>&1 >/dev/null | tee stderr.out
That opens STDERR to STDOUT, and then disposes of STDOUT.