Redirecting to file and stdout
 

Hi, I would like to find a way to be able to redirect output to a file, but still have it display on the screen, i.e. just copy it to a file as the command is running. Now I have been using the standard &> operator to redirect it all to a file, using the command in a screen. Then I run tail -f on the file and I can see the output as it's written. Is there a way to do this using redirection operators? Or just a better way than I am doing it?

Thanks much!

You're looking for the tee command. As in:
Tee displays what it receives as standard input to the screen and also writes it verbatim to the specified file.

tee works perfectly. Thanks!