How can I capture text from my terminal without redirecting it to a text file?

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Basically, what I would like to do is, instead of just redirecting the out from my terminal command to a file, I would like to have the information also show in the terminal session.

If I use ~$ command > output.log I am no longer able to see the command process in the terminal window and therefore I do not know when the command has finished processing without looking at the output.log file. The commands I run take a few minutes to process and produce quite a bit of output. (hence me wanting to capture that output) Any suggestions?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '12 at 16:26

The answer to your question is tee. Just use | tee [output file] instead of > [output file]

Thus, sudo apt-get update > out.log becomes sudo apt-get update | tee out.log.

For more information: LinuxQuestion.org: BASH: How to Redirect Output to File, AND Still Have it on Screen, Linux by Examples: How to redirect output to a file as well as display it out.

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited May 28 '12 at 20:37

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You can use tee.

Example: $ls 2>&1 | tee text.txt

This will print the output of the command into the log file as well in the Terminal.

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Eliah Kagan

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score 3 · Answer 3 · edited May 28 '12 at 20:37

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command |tee output.log both prints, and captures.

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How can I capture text from my terminal without redirecting it to a text file?

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