use tee command to redirect output to a file in a non-existent dir

Question

I am trying to use the tee command to redirect output to a file, and I want the file to be created in a dir which is yet to be created.

date | tee new_dir/new_fi         


        

Answer 1

Hmm... After some experiments, I've found some interesting things.

First of all, let's try to touch some file:

touch ~/.lein/profiles.clj

It works fine. But let's use the same thing with quotes:

touch "~/.lein/profiles.clj" # => touch: cannot touch ‘~/.lein/profiles.clj’: No such file or directory

So, for my bash function:

append_to_file() {
  echo $2 | tee -a $1
}

after that I changed call from it:

append_to_file '~/.lein/projects.clj' '{:user {:plugins [[lein-exec "0.3.1"]]}}'

to it (first argument without quotes):

append_to_file ~/.lein/projects.clj '{:users {:plugins [[lein-exec "0.3.1"]]}}'

And all is well.

UPDATE

This case considers .lein as existing directory.