Capture stdout to a variable but still display it in the console

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Duplicate &1 in your shell (in my examle to 5) and use &5 in the subshell (so that you will write to stdout (&1) of the parent shell):

exec 5>&1
FF=$(echo aaa|tee >(cat - >&5))
echo $FF

Will print aaa two times, ones because of the echo in the subshell, and second time print the value of the variable.

In your code:

exec 5>&1
VAR1=$(for i in {1..5}; do sleep 1; echo $i; done | tee >(cat - >&5))
# use the value of VAR1

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