pipetee

A simple, fast, no-dependencies UNIX utility to print the contents of stdin to the terminal and forward them to stdout at the same time.

Install

• Requires rust 1.65+.
• Only works on a *nix system.

Via cargo:

sh cargo install pipetee

Via repo:

sh git clone github.com/mark-i-m/pipetee cd pipetee cargo install --path .

Example usage:

```sh

output from pt will interleave with output from

sed at the granularity of the buffer

$ yes 'yes' | pt | sed 's/yes/no/g' no no no no no .. no yes yes yes yes yes .. yes no no no no no .. no ^C

$ yes 'yes' | ./target/release/pt -b 3 | sed 's/yes/no/g' yeno s yno es no no yesno no no

yes yno es no no yesno no ^C ```

```sh

look at intermediate results if the final output takes a long time.

$ cat numbers.txt | ./computation-with-incremental-results.py | pt | sort -n | tee output.txt

unsorted

0.0030632556724745847 0.0018044960059851569 0.001587923806107082 0.0029520906739906577 0.006344797296449427 0.1628663298523446 0.10106032701405257 0.028920997961789503 0.027188567279582024 0.02568497042514556

after a while... sorted

0.001587923806107082 0.0018044960059851569 0.0029520906739906577 0.0030632556724745847 0.006344797296449427 0.02568497042514556 0.027188567279582024 0.028920997961789503 0.10106032701405257 0.1628663298523446 ```

How does it work?

It reads from stdin and writes to both stdout and /dev/tty. Your shell will redirect stdout to whatever the next pipe is, but /dev/tty (what stdout defaults to on most shells) will remain untouched.