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tee1 Golf
1. an area, often slightly elevated, from which the first stroke of a hole is made
2. a support for a golf ball, usually a small wooden or plastic peg, used when teeing off or in long grass, etc.
tee2
a mark used as a target in certain games such as curling and quoits
(tool, operating system)tee - A Unix command which copies its standard input to its standard output (like cat) but also to a file given as its argument. tee is thus useful in pipelines of Unix commands (see plumbing) where it allows you to create a duplicate copy of the data stream. E.g.

egrep Unix Dictionary | tee /dev/tty | wc -l

searches for lines containing the string "Unix" in the file "Dictionary", prints them to the terminal (/dev/tty) and counts them.

Unix manual page: tee(1).


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Archibald was now preparing to drive off from the first tee.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
Thus, we learn the value of the coal we buy; we know to a tee the last penny of cost of every item of production, and we learn which firemen are the most wasteful, which firemen, out of stupidity or carelessness, get the least out of the coal they fire.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
Yes, there was a fellow driving off from a tee, and that other group upon the green were surely putting for the hole.
The Poison Belt by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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