Re: [PATCH v3 (resend)] tee: Add -q, --quiet, --silent option to not write to stdout

Otto Moerbeek [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

quoted

This is useful for using tee to just write to a file,
at the end of a pipeline,
without having to redirect to /dev/null

Example:

echo 'foo' | sudo tee -q /etc/foo;

is equivalent to the old (and ugly)

You keep repeating "ugly" as the reason you are wanting this.

I consider adding special options to command to solve an imagined
issue that can be solved with a general concept like redirection ugly.
Please stop pushing your diff to this list. So far nobody showed any
interest.

I also see ZERO reason for this change.

This change will encourage the creation of non-portable scripts, which
harms backwards compatibility and portability, while increasing the
cognitive cost of building software in a simple and useable command
ecosystem.