Expand description

copy standard input to each files and standard output.

Feature

  • copy standard input to each files and standard output.
  • output files are compressed by auto with filename extension.
  • minimum support rustc 1.51.0 (2fd73fabe 2021-03-23)

Command Help

aki-xtee --help
Usage:
  aki-xtee [options] [<file>...]

this is like the linux command `tee`.
copy standard input to each <file>, and to standard output.
automatic discovery file type: plain, gz, xz and zst.

Options:
  -a, --append <file>   append to the <file>, do not overwrite [unimplemented]
  -p, --pipe-out <num>  write to pipe <num> [unimplemented]

  -H, --help        display this help and exit
  -V, --version     display version information and exit

Argument:
  <file>         utf-8 encoded plain text file,
                 gzip compressed file at the end with '.gz',
                 xz2 compressed file at the end with '.xz',
                 zstd compressed file at the end with '.zst'.

Examples:
  You can simple use. Just arrange the files:
    cat in-file | aki-xtee file1 file2.gz file3.xz file4.zst

Quick install

  1. you can install this into cargo bin path:
cargo install aki-xtee
  1. you can build debian package:
cargo deb

and install .deb into your local repository of debian package.

Examples

Command line example 1

output “ABCDEFGH” to standard output and plain text file.

echo "ABCDEFGH" | aki-xtee out/plain.txt

result output :

ABCDEFGH

output “ABCDEFGH” to standard output and gzip text file.

echo "ABCDEFGH" | aki-xtee out/gztext.txt.gz

result output :

ABCDEFGH

output “ABCDEFGH” to standard output and xz text file.

echo "ABCDEFGH" | aki-xtee out/xztext.txt.xz

result output :

ABCDEFGH

output “ABCDEFGH” to standard output and zstd text file.

echo "ABCDEFGH" | aki-xtee out/xztext.txt.zst

result output :

ABCDEFGH

Command line example 2

copy input to plain text file, gzip text file, xz text file and zstd text file.

aki-xtee out/plain.txt out/gztext.txt.gz out/xztext.txt.xz  out/zstext.txt.zst

Library example

See fn execute() for this library examples.

Functions

execute xcat