Another way (assuming a shell like bash or zsh):
echo "hey hey, we're the monkees" | tee >(gzip --stdout > my_log.gz)
The admittedly strange >() syntax basically does the following:
- Create new FIFO (usually something in
/tmp/) - Execute command inside
()and bind the FIFO to stdin on that subcommand - Return FIFO filename to command line.
What tee ends up seeing, then, is something like:
tee /tmp/arjhaiX4
All gzip sees is its standard input.
For Bash, see man bash for details. It’s in the section on redirection. For Zsh, see man zshexpn under the heading “Process Substitution.”
As far as I can tell, the Korn Shell, variants of the classic Bourne Shell (including ash and dash), and the C Shell don’t support this syntax.