On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 03:28:01PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> [cc's trimmed]
>
> On 2021/01/23 15:53, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > 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;
>
> If this added a new very useful feature then *maybe* it would be
> worthwhile. But as things stand, as an alternative way to do something
> which can already be done trivially, why would you want to encourage
> unportable scripts by adding it?
>
> It's much less ugly to use >/dev/null than to create a script which
> will fail (possibly in bad ways) on slightly older OS releases.
>
> I seriously doubt this will be added to OpenBSD.
Agreed. Using a general concept like redirection is much better that
adding specific options to commands. I have no idea why redirection
would be considered ugly.
-Otto
