On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 07:38:03AM +0000, Budi wrote: > How come tail coreutil cannot work as its input is from tee > > $ echo -e '9\n4\n3\n2\n8\n7\n3\n1' |tail -1 > 1 > > But : > > $ echo -e '9\n4\n3\n2\n8\n7\n3\n1' |tee >(head -1) |tail -1 > 9 > > Please help explain
Not a bug. If you leave out the |tail -1', you will see that the output of head -1 gets appended to that of tee. -- Regards, Mike Jonkmans