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

- From: Alex Henrie \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-01-24 20:02:56 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2021/01/13330010
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2021/01/13330001/t.md

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On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 10:51 AM Otto Moerbeek [ref] wrote:
>
> Please stop pushing your diff to this list. So far nobody showed any
> interest.

I am definitely interested. Bernhard Voelker seemed to express
interest as well, conditional on -q being added to POSIX first.[1]
Also, a --quiet flag was proposed back in 2001 by Roman Czyborra [2]
and Jim Meyering expressed support for the idea.[3]

-Alex

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2021-01/msg00043.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-sh-utils/2001-05/msg00024.html
[3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-sh-utils/2001-05/msg00039.html
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