Re: [PATCH] tee: Add -q, --quiet option to not write to stdout

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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On 1/21/21 10:26 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Berny,
> 
> On 1/21/21 10:01 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On 1/21/21 7:39 PM, Alex Henrie wrote:
>>> That said, I would love to see `tee -q` added to a future revision of
>>> POSIX and adopted everywhere.
>>
>> I like the idea.
>> We have been living for decades without a terminating "pipe end piece",
>> so why hurrying a new option into an implementation of 'tee'?
>> Instead, this could be discussed thoroughly and specified by the OpenGroup
>> and nailed down in a new POSIX issue, and then all implementations
>> could adopt it consistently.
>> Are you willing to start the discussion there?

Hi Berny,

Please don't feel like I'm hurrying with this.
I'm strongly defending my patch to try to
convince you that it's a Good Thing :-)
But if it has to undergo a long discussion
with POSIX, BSD, and whoever, that's fine by me.

I'll send a v2 with --silent in a moment.


Hi Michael,

Talking about designing new APIs,
you might have something to say here,
even if it's not for the kernel.


I also CCd a few lists that might be interested.
Please comment.


Cheers,

Alex

> 
> I am.  However, the Austing Group is a nightmare in terms of login,
> and doing things requiring an account; at least for me.
> 
> I'd prefer that someone else opens a bug there and links to the
> discussion on an open mailing list like this one.
> 
> Do they have an open mailing list?
> 
> Is anyone hepling me report the bug to them?  I should learn at this
> point...
> 
>>
>> BTW: --quiet is usually used to avoid outputting of informational
>> messages (e.g. wget, head, tail, md5sum), while 'tee' would change
>> its functional behavior.
>> Maybe --drain, --drain-stdout, --discard-stdout (-d), --no-stdout (-n),
>> --elide-stdout (-e) or something similar would be more appropriate?
> 
> I stand by -q, --quiet.  Conforming to: grep. Maybe there's some other.
> 
> $ man grep 2>/dev/null | sed -n '/-q, --quiet, --silent/,/^$/p'
>        -q, --quiet, --silent
>               Quiet;  do  not  write  anything to standard output.
>               Exit immediately with zero status if  any  match  is
>               found,  even if an error was detected.  Also see the
>               -s or --no-messages option.
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> Have a nice day,
>> Berny
>>
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Alex
> 


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