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) echo 'foo' | sudo tee /etc/foo >/dev/null; Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpa...@gmail.com> --- Resend as v3. I forgot to change the subject line. Everything else is the same as in <20210123145356.53962-1-alx.manpa...@gmail.com>. src/tee.c | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/tee.c b/src/tee.c index c81faea91..1dfa92cf2 100644 --- a/src/tee.c +++ b/src/tee.c @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ static bool append; /* If true, ignore interrupts. */ static bool ignore_interrupts; +/* Don't write to stdout */ +static bool quiet; + enum output_error { output_error_sigpipe, /* traditional behavior, sigpipe enabled. */ @@ -61,6 +64,8 @@ static struct option const long_options[] = {"append", no_argument, NULL, 'a'}, {"ignore-interrupts", no_argument, NULL, 'i'}, {"output-error", optional_argument, NULL, 'p'}, + {"quiet", no_argument, NULL, 'q'}, + {"silent", no_argument, NULL, 'q'}, {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL}, {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL}, {NULL, 0, NULL, 0} @@ -93,6 +98,7 @@ Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ -p diagnose errors writing to non pipes\n\ + -q, --quiet, --silent don't write to standard output\n\ --output-error[=MODE] set behavior on write error. See MODE below\n\ "), stdout); fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout); @@ -130,8 +136,9 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) append = false; ignore_interrupts = false; + quiet = false; - while ((optc = getopt_long (argc, argv, "aip", long_options, NULL)) != -1) + while ((optc = getopt_long (argc, argv, "aipq", long_options, NULL)) != -1) { switch (optc) { @@ -151,6 +158,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) output_error = output_error_warn_nopipe; break; + case 'q': + quiet = true; + break; + case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR; case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS); @@ -235,8 +246,9 @@ tee_files (int nfiles, char **files) break; /* Write to all NFILES + 1 descriptors. - Standard output is the first one. */ - for (i = 0; i <= nfiles; i++) + Standard output is the first one. + If 'quiet' is true, write to descriptors 1 and above (omit stdout) */ + for (i = quiet; i <= nfiles; i++) if (descriptors[i] && fwrite (buffer, bytes_read, 1, descriptors[i]) != 1) { -- 2.30.0