What i meant is that right now i just redirect to an outputfile and then while it's running, I use "cat outputfile" to see how the program's doing (in another console) ;-) But thanks for the solution, that's what I needed! Sofie Kenny Billiau wrote:

so you want to redirect to a file and read what is been redirected? If this is the case then you can use the command 'tee', which will output to stdout and to the next in a pipeline.

run script | tee > outputfile

And I don't rerally get how cat wouldn't be redirected to the same output file as well ;)

Kenny

Sofie Van Landeghem wrote:

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Maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm far from a linux expert ;-)

run script > outputfile redirects the output of your script to the specified outputfile, but can you do this redirection while at the same time still reading the output at the console? (so without having to use "cat" every 5 seconds)

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