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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2004-08-10 22:08:58 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2004-08-10 22:08:58 +0000
commit8dafbe5806de7a2faf01ebc863e30aa134350da0 (patch)
tree0969e16da135984302381112b3b8de17d25b200e /src
parent7b99d60f0873544dc3591146d0162b00db893080 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-8dafbe5806de7a2faf01ebc863e30aa134350da0.tar.xz
(usage, tee): "tee -" writes to standard output, not
to a file named "-".
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/tee.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/tee.c b/src/tee.c
index 71c1c13a7..ccd74da78 100644
--- a/src/tee.c
+++ b/src/tee.c
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
+ fputs (_("\
+\n\
+If a FILE is -, copy again to standard output.\n\
+"), stdout);
printf (_("\nReport bugs to <%s>.\n"), PACKAGE_BUGREPORT);
}
exit (status);
@@ -158,7 +162,9 @@ tee (int nfiles, const char **files)
for (i = 1; i <= nfiles; i++)
{
- descriptors[i] = fopen (files[i], mode_string);
+ descriptors[i] = (STREQ (files[i], "-")
+ ? stdout
+ : fopen (files[i], mode_string));
if (descriptors[i] == NULL)
{
error (0, errno, "%s", files[i]);