Re: !Postprocess and e-mailed summary report

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robin Bowes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, October 9, 2003 8:47 pm, "Paul Jarc" said:
> > "Robin Bowes" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> tee /dev/stdin
> >
> > tee: warning: cannot open /dev/stdin: Text file busy
> 
> I guess you're telling me this won't work! I tried it and it doesn't. Why?

I don't know what you're trying to do; tee copies stdin to stdout while also
recording it to the file specified as an argument.  You can't write to
/dev/stdin meaningfully.

Charles
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