[NTLUG:Discuss] Copying a file to TWO destinations as the same time..

[steve]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way..or possible way to copy a file to multiple 
> locations at the same time?  I know that TEE can do something 
> similar..but is there a way to copy or dd and send the information 
> through 'tee'

Well, yeah.

   cat source | tee first_destination > second_destination

You can replace 'cat' with any program that produces results on the
standard output - so 'dd' will work too.  'cp' doesn't produce output
to stdout though so that's not going to work.