Question

I’ve been running a lot of similar commands lately, e.g.

python foo.py some args 2>&1 | tee foo.log
python bar.py otherarg 2>&1 | tee bar.log

To save typing, I’d like a shorthand for 2>&1 | tee like

python foo.py some args $tee foo.log

but when I say export tee='2>&1 | tee', this gives me this error: Variable assignment '2>&1' invalid (no "=")

Is there a way to create a convenient shorthand (not necessarily identical to what I’ve written above) for this kind of output redirection?

Answer 1

why not create a shell script file named XXX with:

python $1.py $* 2>&1 | tee $1.log

or something like that … (may need “$*” if args have spaces, probably want to check that there is at least 1 arg, etc)

then you would have to type:
XXX foo some args
XXX bar otherargs