[SLUG] grep sed

[Al Girling]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 03:20:06PM GMT, John Allsopp wrote:
> > Al said: John, I can see how you got this to work, but I'm uncertain
> > about what you were trying to do with the '| tee out.txt' bit.  I
> > can see how you'd use grep -l to find all the files containing your
> > string before passing that list to xargs and doing some sed magic to
> > change the old to new numbers.  Could you explain where 'tee' fits
> > in please?
> 
> I've always been irritated by the > out.txt to redirect the output to
> a file, whereupon you can't see what's being output. | tee out.txt is
> a T junction, a stream splitter: the output goes to the file, but it
> also goes to stdout too.

OK. Fair enough.  I guess it's just not my cup of tea!  Seems like just
creating superfluous files while watching lots of stuff disappear of the
top of your screen.

A little puzzled,

Al

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Al Girling

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