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Sometimes less is more (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit the reason for tee never really clicked until I saw this post. I’d used it in pasted commands, but it had always seemed superfluous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What does tee do?

[–] SteveTech 13 points 1 year ago

It writes to a file like >, and echos it back at the same time; in this case the latter isn't needed (we're just using it to write with sudo), but it's good to know.