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NAME
     funnel - split one pipe stream to one or more files or programs

SYNOPSIS
     funnel [|] [>[>]file] [|process]

DESCRIPTION
     The  funnel program will read data from standard input and write it to sev-
     eral output streams.

     The | symbol means to copy standard input to standard output.

     The > symbol means that a file name immediately follows with no  separating
     spaces,  the  file will be truncated if it exists or created if it doesn't.
     The >> means that the file is to be appended to if it exists.

     A | symbol followed immediately by text indicates a command that is  to  be
     run by system() and will have all input piped to it.

EXIT STATUS
     0 No errors

     1 Error opening input

     Other errors are 100 + number of commands or files that fail

AUTHOR
     This  program, its manual page, and the Debian package were written by Rus-
     sell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>.

FEATURES
     Uses popen (3) for output so that shell expansion gets performed.	 If  you
     want  such  shell expansion then you must ensure that you quote the parame-
     ters correctly so that they get expanded by popen (3) not	the  shell  that
     calls funnel.

SEE ALSO
     popen(3)

Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>  0.06			       funnel(1)

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