(lots of Cc's removed) * Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpa...@gmail.com> [2021-01-22 00:12:58 +0100]:
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; Tools with a similar interface: grep [...]
It doesn't make sense to add something like -q/--quiet/--silent to every single program, when equivalent behavior can be obtained at the shell level. See: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf