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Question

Answer 1

+1 A:

echo hi | tee one | tee two &

Dennis Williamson 2010-05-05 22:21:10

interesting. I actually wanted either cat one and cat two to be independent.

User1 2010-05-05 22:32:48

Answer 2

+1 A:

Problem: Fifos are blocking until opened for reading. So just open a read FD on them:

mkfifo one two
echo hi | tee one two &
exec 3<one
exec 4<two
cat <&3
cat <&4

Jürgen Hötzel 2010-05-06 06:46:28

Tee a Pipe Asynchronously