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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 (resend)] tee: Add -q, --quiet, --silent option to not write to stdout
From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg () gndrsh ! dnsmgr ! net>
Date: 2021-01-27 12:43:53
Message-ID: 202101271243.10RChrM2099268 () gndrsh ! dnsmgr ! net
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> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 9:04 PM Bernhard Voelker
> <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> wrote:
> >
> > An off-tech argument: ask a local plumber if he'd would ever use
> > a tee piece instead of a pipe end piece. I guess he would only
> > if he wouldn't have anything else at hand.
>
> According to POSIX, tee writes to "zero or more files."[1] So the
> "local plumber" analogy already doesn't hold, because a plumber would
> never put in a tee and then immediately cap it off so that the flow
Actually plumbers do this all the time, its a stub out for future
additions/alterations. There is also a special case of it done
when plumbing air/gas lines called a trap.
> can only go to one place, but commands like `echo foo | tee | tee |
> tee` are already explicitly allowed.
>
> > A word to the proposed patch: what should happen, if the user does
> > not give a file?
> > A | B | tee -q
> > The patch just silently ignored that situation which feels wrong.
>
> Personally, I like the idea of only having to type `echo foo | tee -q`
> instead of `echo foo > /dev/null`, so I think the patch indeed does
> the right thing in that case.
>
> -Alex
>
> [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/tee.html
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