[clue] "Tee" copy??

[foo7775 at comcast.net]

Hey, I think that most of us are familiar with the 'tee' command, which allows the user to "split" a single input into two output streams. I was asked yesterday if there was a way to do the same thing with files that are being copied,and I had to admit that I had no idea, I'd never considered that before. 

I thought I'd take just a minute to ask the group if anyone knows of a way to copy an arbitrary "file (or group of files, some of which might be compiled binaries, etc.)" from a single source to two separate destinations simultaneously. I'd *briefly* considered something like 

"cat sourcefile | tee DEST1 DEST2" 

since within *NIX everything's a file, but then figured that compiled binaries *might* cause problems. 

Not a really big deal if it's not easily possible, but the question kind of intrigued me, & I figure I might learn something cool... ;-) 

Thanks guys! 

T. 
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