How to append tee to a file in Bash?

Solution 1:

echo -e "First Line" | tee ~/output.log
echo -e "Second Line" | tee -a ~/output.log
                            ^^

From man tee:

   Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.

   -a, --append
          append to the given FILEs, do not overwrite

Note: Using -a still creates the file mentioned.