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The following command displays output only on the screen (stdout). $ ls The following command writes the output only to the file and not to the screen. $ ls > file The following command (with the help of tee command) writes the output both to the screen (stdout) and to the file. $ ls | ...

You can also use tee command to store the output of a command in a file and redirect the same output to another command. The following command will write current crontab entries to a file crontab-backup.txt and pass the crontab entries to sed command, which will do the substituion. After the substi...

You can pipe your output to multiple files (including your terminal) by using tee like this: $ ls | tee file1 file2 file3

By default tee command overwrites the file. You can instruct tee to append to the file using the –a option as shown below. $ ls | tee –a file