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.TH BLIND-TEE 1 blind
.SH NAME
blind-tee - /dev/fd/ aware tee(1) implementation
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B blind-tee
.RI [ file \ ...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B blind-tee
reads stdin and writes its input to stdout and to all
.IR file s.
.P
Files are opened in truncate mode, file descriptors
specified via their /dev/fd/ path are not reopened
but used directly.
.SH RATIONALE
There are situations where opening files in /dev/fd/
creates problems. Popular
.BR tee (1),
implementations do not treat files in /dev/fd/
especially.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR blind (7),
.BR blind-to-named (1),
.BR blind-from-named (1),
.BR tee (1)
.SH AUTHORS
Mattias Andrée
.RI < maandree@kth.se >