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Is there a way to print output data from within a pipeline ?

So I am running a command with fairly large output and piped it into various combination of grep and awks to extract specific data and assigning it to a variable by running the whole chain in substitution or backtick, all in one line. My question is, is there a way to view the full output of the first element of the pipeline without disturbing the downstream ? I've thought about teeing to a file but it seems a bit cumbersome. I just want to know if there's a lightweight and elegant solution to this. Thanks in advance.

ok, so i've found out a workaround that I should find the tty and tee into that so the pipeline can run as well as I can see the full output. Don't know if this is a acceptable fix. Please let me know.

It's pretty straightforward as long as the volume of output isn't something ridiculous to be sending to the tty:

Code:

some_command | tee /dev/tty | rest_of_pipeline