Re^2: Building a log file

[Marshall]

This is a good idea. Windows systems don't have tee, I hacked in this tee.pl awhile ago for my Windoze work. It is a simple program. The only tricky part is turning auto-flush on for write. Have fun to anybody who needs it.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# tee program ####  tee.pl ######
# quickie tool 

$| =1;   #flushes I/O for each write.

sub usage  
{
   print "TEE USAGE:\n tees stdout to a file and to stdout\n".
      " program | tee outfile\n";
}

my $filename = shift @ARGV;
usage unless $filename;

open (OUTFILE, '>', "$filename") or (die "Can't open OUTFILE: $!");

while (<>)
{
   print;
   print OUTFILE;
}