Re: [TxMt] Moving Text Around

On 20/5/2006, at 5:59, nachodog@mac.com wrote:

[...] I tried this and it didn't work:

tee >(grep ^# >/Users/ndog/Desktop/GTD_TEXT/project_list) | grep ^\ * >/Users/ndog/Desktop/GTD_TEXT/nextactions | grep ^\% >/Users/ ndog/Desktop/GTD_TEXT/done

Normally it’s: command1 | command2 | command3 and these will process the data serially.

tee is a special command which additionally writes the data to the file(s) given as argument.

The: >(command) syntax is a shell feature which will be substituted with a dynamic filename, and data written to that file, will actually be given to the command.

So what you probably want is something like:

cd ~/Desktop/GTD_TEXT tee >(grep '^#' >project_list) >(grep '^*' >nextactions) >(grep '^%' >done)