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From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn AT spk DOT agilent DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Pass-through filter with logging
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On 2007-03-21, B. S. wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to do the following:
> 
> lynx -source $url > logged_file
> tidy -asxml -q < logged_file
> 
> in a more elegant way like:
> 
> lynx -source $url | log_pass_through logged_file | tidy -asxml -q
> 
> I believe (maybe not true) that the latter should be more performant since 
> the file is not needed to be read.
> 
> The question is: Does such command ("log_pass_through") exist by default in 
> Cygwin?

Yes.  It's called 'tee'.  See the tee(1) man page.

Gary

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