On 23 February 2012 08:46, Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:48:17 +0100 >> From: Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> >> >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:16:20AM +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > Is this really much more useful than 2>/dev/null? >> > >> Note the FAILED that vanish. >> >> I'm not sure it's not bloat anyways. > > None of the other BSDs seem to implement an option like this (and > md5(1) is pretty much a BSDism; Linux and Solaris don't have it). > > Our policy tends to be to not add non-standard options to our > utilities to encourage people to write portable shell scripts. Of > course we make exceptions if a strong case can be made for the added > functionality. But personally I don't think that's the case here. >
Since this is just a small specialization of the -c case, how about an environment var ? /me ducks
