How to tee to stderr?

Question

I want to split stdout so that it is printed both to stdout and stderr. This sounds like a job for tee but the syntax is evading me -

./script.sh | tee stderr

Of course, how should stderr actually be referred to here?

Answer 1

./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).

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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

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