Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 01:18:46PM +0100, 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) > > You keep repeating "ugly" as the reason you are wanting this. > > I consider adding special options to command to solve an imagined > issue that can be solved with a general concept like redirection ugly. > Please stop pushing your diff to this list. So far nobody showed any > interest.
I also see ZERO reason for this change. This change will encourage the creation of non-portable scripts, which harms backwards compatibility and portability, while increasing the cognitive cost of building software in a simple and useable command ecosystem.
