I'm writing a script that puts a short line of text into each of the files f1, f2, and f3.
When done, the script prints a message that all files have been created. This is what I have:

touch newDir/f3 newDir/dir1/f1 newDir/dir1/f1 newDir/dir1/f2
echo This is the first line of text | tee newDir/f3 newDir/dir1/f1 newDir/dir1/f2
echo All files and subdirectories created!

The problem is that tee directs output to the files AND the screen. How do I prevent output to the screen? I tried to redirect the output by using > newDir/f3 newDir/dir1/f1 newDir/dir1/f2 (because I want to do them all in the same line), but I don't get the results I'm looking for.

Please explain your answer. Thank you in advance!

This redirects the standard output to /dev/null which is a "fake" device.

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why not jist redirect the output directly to the file? in this case tee is redundant.

echo This is the first line of text | tee newDir/f3 newDir/dir1/f1 > newDir/dir1/f2

Taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...but-not-stdout

Found through web search for linux tee not stdout

Essentially, you're using tee to redirect the input to the first two files, then redirecting stdout to the third, which has the same effect.

Just an aside that you touch newDir/dir1/f1 twice in your first line.

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