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Why does "seq 1000000 | tee /dev/stdout" produce more single-digit numbers than expected?
As Stéphane Chazelas explained, tee is the wrong tool for the job of duplicating line-based input into a single output stream. It interleaves data at block boundaries that can be within a line.
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Why does "seq 1000000 | tee /dev/stdout" produce more single-digit numbers than expected?
Having both of tee's outputs going to the same pipe creates tearing within lines because they don't start/end at the boundaries of read/write blocks.
tee, reads its input and writes its output by ...
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