Perhaps expdp uses stderr instead of stdout for some reason? If so, something like this would probably work. expdp username/incrediblysecretpassword parfile=x.par 2>&1 | tee -a somefile On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 08:01, Bellows, Bambi (Comsys) <bbel5@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Friends – > > > > I am trying to mechanize a datapump process and send an email if it fails. > Problem is that > > > > expdp username/incrediblysecretpassword parfile=x.par|tee –a somefile > > > > does not, in fact, tee –a anything! I can do > > > > expdp username/incrediblysecretpassword parfile=x.par >somefile 2>somefile > > > > but that disables output to the screen, which the user running the job > certainly wouldn’t like. So… three questions… > > > > 1) How do you get output onto the screen and into a file without > using tee? > > 2) How in the world did Oracle manage to disable tee in the first > place? > > 3) Why would they want to? > > > > Other than that, best wishes to all my good friends for a lovely holiday > and/or quiet list day! > > > > Thanks! > > Bambi. > -- "I'm too sexy for my code." - Awk Sed Fred.