tee and exit status

Question

is there an alternative to \"tee\" which captures STDOUT/STDERR of the command being executed and exits with the same exit status as the processed command. Something as followin

Answer 1

Here's an eet. Works with every Bash I can get my hands on, from 2.05b to 4.0.

#!/bin/bash
tee_args=()
while [[ $# > 0 && $1 != -- ]]; do
    tee_args=("${tee_args[@]}" "$1")
    shift
done
shift
# now ${tee_args[*]} has the arguments before --,
# and $* has the arguments after --

# redirect standard out through a pipe to tee
exec | tee "${tee_args[@]}"

# do the *real* exec of the desired program
exec "$@"

(pipefail and $PIPESTATUS are nice, but I recall them being introduced in 3.1 or thereabouts.)