From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
To: Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>
Cc: "Alejandro Colomar" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
"Bernhard Voelker" <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>,
"Alex Henrie" <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>,
"Christian Groessler" <chris@groessler.org>,
"Pádraig Brady" <P@draigbrady.com>, Coreutils <coreutils@gnu.org>,
"William Ahern" <william@25thandclement.com>,
"Erik Auerswald" <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>,
"Eric Pruitt" <eric.pruitt@gmail.com>,
"Jeffrey Walton" <noloader@gmail.com>,
"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
"Fabrice BAUZAC" <noon@mykolab.com>,
tech@openbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, juli@clockworksquid.com, ed@nuxi.nl,
oshogbo@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 (resend)] tee: Add -q, --quiet, --silent option to not write to stdout
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 10:58:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80701.1611511108@cvs.openbsd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YA2ztHUATu1gOxoV@clue.drijf.net>
Otto Moerbeek <otto@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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-24 18:06 UTC|newest]
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2021-01-21 22:49 ` [PATCH] tee: Add -q, --quiet option to not write to stdout Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-21 23:12 ` [PATCH v2] tee: Add -q, --quiet, --silent " Alejandro Colomar
2021-01-22 18:25 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-23 14:53 ` [PATCH] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-01-24 12:18 ` [PATCH v3 (resend)] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-01-24 16:11 ` Teran McKinney
2021-01-24 16:22 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-24 17:51 ` Otto Moerbeek
2021-01-24 17:58 ` Theo de Raadt [this message]
2021-01-24 20:01 ` Alex Henrie
2021-01-24 20:22 ` Otto Moerbeek
2021-01-25 4:03 ` Bernhard Voelker
2021-01-25 11:33 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-26 9:08 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-27 1:40 ` Alex Henrie
2021-03-14 9:44 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-03-15 17:42 ` Alex Henrie
2021-03-15 20:20 ` Alex Henrie
2021-01-25 16:06 ` Philipp-Joachim Ost
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