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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] archive: Refuse to write the archive to a terminal.
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:27:13 +0200
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2009/9/16 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
> Josh Triplett schrieb:
>> I considered adding a -f/--force option, like gzip has, but writing an
>> archive to a tty seems like a sufficiently insane use case that I'll let
>> whoever actually needs that write the patch for it. ;)
>
> How about '--output -' instead?

You could always just add '|cat'.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson