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I am using mplayer. I want to send everything to a log file (/tmp/server.log), but I want the Volume output to be written to the terminal. I have seen that there is a way to split the output with tee, but I can't seem to get it to work. This is what I have so far:

$mplayer /path/to/song.wav 1>tee /tmp/server.log | grep Volume  2> /tmp/server.log

I want ALL of the stdout and stderr to go to the log file, but only the lines with Volume from stdout to be written to the terminal. Or is there a better way of doing this?

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Assuming you are using bash and that "Volume" is not a word that appears on stderr:

 $ mplayer /path/to/song.wav 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/server.log | grep -F Volume

This combines the stdout and stderr from mplayer (2>&1), appends (note the -a to /tmp/server.log and grep's all lines for the word Volume.

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  • There's still some output, other than Volume lines that are slipping through. Is there another output I'm not aware of and not catching?
    – MrUser
    May 30, 2014 at 11:06
  • @MrUser what is the actual output that you are seeing? I did not try this with mplayer, just with { echo "Volume 11" ; echo "error" 1>&2; } | tee ....
    – Anthon
    May 30, 2014 at 13:03
  • The new output looks something like this: Line1: Volume: 9 % Line2: A: 12.0 (12.0) of 104.0 (01:44.0) 0.2% The second line isn't the worst thing in the world, but at this point it would be an exercise to see if I could get rid of it.
    – MrUser
    Jun 2, 2014 at 11:37
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Try this. Assuming bash

$ mplayer /path/to/song.wav 2>> /tmp/server.log | tee -a /tmp/server.log | grep Volume

here I am first appending stderr to file and passing only stdout to tee and using grep from there.

This removes Anthon's assumption of Volume not in stderr.

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