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Re: cygwin commands (cat,grep) not working in my windows 2008 machine
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According to sudhap85 on 4/2/2009 5:45 AM:
> Hi,
> what i means the problem here is that function is not working for me.
> (i.e) if i run cat > file1 >>file2. Here file1 content is not copied to
> file2.
This is not cygwin specific. Nor is it how the shell works. If you want
output to go to two places, you need to use tee, not multiple redirection
operators.
tee file2 < file1 >> file3
copies file1 into file2 (overwrite) and file3 (append). You probably want
to read a good shell tutorial book.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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