NAME¶
funnel - split one pipe stream to one or more files or programs
SYNOPSIS¶
funnel [|] [>[>]file] [|process]
DESCRIPTION¶
The
funnel program will read data from standard input and write it to
several output streams.
The
| symbol means to copy standard input to standard output.
The
> symbol means that a file name immediately follows with no
separating spaces, the file will be truncated if it exists or created if it
doesn't. The
>> means that the file is to be appended to if it
exists.
A
| symbol followed immediately by text indicates a command that is to be
run by system() and will have all input piped to it.
EXIT STATUS¶
0 No errors
1 Error opening input
Other errors are 100 + number of commands or files that fail
AUTHOR¶
This program, its manual page, and the Debian package were written by Russell
Coker <russell@coker.com.au>.
FEATURES¶
Uses
popen (3) for output so that shell expansion gets performed. If you
want such shell expansion then you must ensure that you quote the parameters
correctly so that they get expanded by
popen (3) not the shell that
calls
funnel.
SEE ALSO¶
popen(3)