How to tee to stderr? How to tee to stderr? bash bash

How to tee to stderr?


The only cross platform method I found which works in both interactive and non-interactive shells is:

command | tee >(cat 1>&2)

The argument to tee is a file or file handle. Using process substitution we send the output to a process. In the process =cat=, we redirect stdout to stderr. The shell (bash/ksh) is responsible for setting up the 1 and 2 file descriptors.


./script.sh | tee /dev/fd/2

Note that this is dependant on OS support, not any built-in power in tee, so isn't universal (but will work on MacOS, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, probably others).


./script.sh 2>&1 >/dev/null | tee stderr.out

That opens STDERR to STDOUT, and then disposes of STDOUT.