write to stdout and another file at the same time.

[akbari_n]

All,

I am writing a perl script that does do a bunch of admin stuff.
What I need help with is this (I have done it in the past, I just can
not remember it now !)

I need to capture everything that this script does.

For example if it prints something to the screen, I need that to be
dumped into a file at the same time. So we are writing in 2 places.
1) To the screen 2) A file that acts as our log file.

Please keep in mind that I need to do this from inside the perl script.
I do not intend to do it this way " myScript.pl > log& ". A long time
ago I did that and put one line after the magic line and it took care
of it for me, it had something to do with |tee.
I just can not remember it and I can not figure it out.


Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

p-

 

[John W. Krahn]

I am writing a perl script that does do a bunch of admin stuff.
What I need help with is this (I have done it in the past, I just can
not remember it now !)

I need to capture everything that this script does.

For example if it prints something to the screen, I need that to be
dumped into a file at the same time. So we are writing in 2 places.
1) To the screen 2) A file that acts as our log file.

Please keep in mind that I need to do this from inside the perl script.
I do not intend to do it this way " myScript.pl > log& ". A long time
ago I did that and put one line after the magic line and it took care
of it for me, it had something to do with |tee.
I just can not remember it and I can not figure it out.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

perldoc -q "How do I print to more than one file at once"



John