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How do I use tee to redirect to grep

I don't have much experience of using tee, so I hope this is not very basic. After viewing one of the answers to this question I came across a strange beheviour with tee. In order for me to output ...
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password problem when feeding a remote file into diff

When I want to compare a local file with a remote file, any of these usually works: $ ssh remote cat file | diff file - $ diff file <(ssh remote cat file) However, sometimes (especially when the ...
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Pipes vs process substitution

While trying the cat "$@" trick to read from either standard input or given files, it turned out that pipe and process substitution handle a missing trailing newline differently: printf %s foo > ...
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Process substitution and pipe

I was wondering how to understand the following: Piping the stdout of a command into the stdin of another is a powerful technique. But, what if you need to pipe the stdout of multiple ...