Re: Sponsor for multipipe

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

Hi,

On Sunday 16 September 2007, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
> I just packaged the small multipipe tool from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe.
>
> It can send its stdin to several other commands like this:
>
> cat blub |multipipe 'cat >/dev/null' 'less' 'wc'
>
> I find this little tool very handy in many cases. Something like
> this should be available in Debian.

it already is. The program "pee" from the moreutils package seems to 
do the same. Please look whether multipipe can do anything pee can't. 
If no, then there is no need for multipipe in Debian (though it might 
be a good idea to add "like multipipe" or something similar to pee's 
description).

Cheers,
Stefan