How to output bash command to stdout and pipe to another command at the same time?

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I'm working on a server and to show detailed GPU information I use these commands:

nvidia-smi
ps -up `nvidia-smi |tail -n +16 | head -n -1 | sed 's/\s\s*/ /g' | cut -d' ' -f3`

However as you can see, nvidia-smi is called twice. How can I make the output of nvidia-smi go to output and pipe to another command at the same time?

iBug · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-24 04:50:13Z

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Use tee:

ps -up `nvidia-smi |tee /dev/stderr |tail -n +16 | head -n -1 | sed 's/\s\s*/ /g' | cut -d' ' -f3`

Since stdout is piped, you can't make a copy to it, so I picked stderr to show output.

If /dev/stderr is not available, use /proc/self/fd/2.

answered May 24, 2018 at 4:50

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3 Comments

Dang Manh Truong Over a year ago

I've tested this on the server, and it worked! Thank you very much! Although using /dev/stderr is a little bit weird... Does this command dump to an error log file or something ? I'm sorry I'm not very knowledgeable about Bash

iBug Over a year ago

@DangManhTruong Every program has two default output file descriptors, the standard output and the standard error. Usually both are inherited from the parent process, and in your case, the shell, which has both connected to the terminal.

iBug Over a year ago

@DangManhTruong "Standard Error" is not any system error log file. It's just another standard output stream for programs.

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