How to write output of a command to multiple files without displaying on screen

Question

Here in the example is date command.
I have tried
date &> file file2 file3

does not work
date | tee file file2 file3

works but also displays on the console
Is there a way if I can run date command and it displays output to multiple files and not on the terminal.

steeldriver · Answer

Use tee, but redirect the "final" stdout to /dev/null:
date | tee file file2 file3 >/dev/null

Panki · Answer

If you're using zsh, this construct works:
date > file1 > file2 > file3

If running in bash, only file3 will contain the output.

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