gerritjvv/tee2

tee2

Under development!!! and in WIP stage. please do not use yet

An alternative to the populate linux tee program.

The biggest difference is log rotation. The gnu tee command will happily fill your disks, and this is normally not wanted.

Description

This application reads from standard input and writes to a file, the same data is written to standard output. When the file reaches a certain limit it is truncated or rotated.

File rotation will happen by default as:

e.g command | tee2 myfile.log

1. myfile.log is renamed to myfile_<iso_timestamp>.log
2. a new file is created as myfile.log
3. if the log-file-count is 3 when we have myfile_{i}.log, myfile_{i=1}.log, myfile_{i+2}.log, myfile_{i}.log is deleted

Objectives

• Log rotation
• Log truncation
• Reasonably performant.

Non Goals

• Fully compatible with tee. This application does not strive to be fully compatible with tee. It would be nice, but is not a goal.