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Re: Why tail coreutil cannot work as its input is from tee


From: Mike Jonkmans
Subject: Re: Why tail coreutil cannot work as its input is from tee
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 09:52:09 +0200

On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 07:38:03AM +0000, Budi wrote:
> How come tail coreutil cannot work as its input is from tee
> 
> $ echo -e '9\n4\n3\n2\n8\n7\n3\n1' |tail -1
> 1
> 
> But :
> 
> $ echo -e '9\n4\n3\n2\n8\n7\n3\n1' |tee >(head -1) |tail -1
> 9
> 
> Please help explain

Not a bug.

If you leave out the |tail -1', you will see that
the output of head -1 gets appended to that of tee.

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Regards, Mike Jonkmans



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