tee and some commands

[Leo "TheHobbit" Cacciari]

> Hi chaps
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> Anyone noticed that tee doesn't seem to log the output from some
> commands to a log file?
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> I am using tee in a script on the following line;
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>     ncftpput -u $ftp_user -p $ftp_pass -R -m -v ftp.mydomain.local /
> $dest/\archives/$1/ | tee -a $out_file
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> Instead of logging to a log file via tee it now outputs two copies of
> the FTP output to the console and nothing to the log file.
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> Is there a way I can work around that or is it a limitation in the
> ncftpput command do you think?
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> Olly
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Hi,

This could depends from $out_file being equal to "-", then accordingly
to tee documention, the output file is also stdout, thus achieving a
duplication of output.

-- 
Leo "TheHobbit" Cacciari
Aliae nationes servitutem pati possunt populi romani est propria libertas

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