Re: "tee -" treating "-" as stdout violating POSIX?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 19/02/15 02:55, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/18/2015 06:59 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
>>
>> I'm worried about breaking scripts that do stuff like:
>>
>>   tee file - >/dev/null
> 
> But why do that when:
> 
> tee file
> 
> does the same with less typing?

Sure, but since the former is more symmetrical wrt arguments,
it's possible it might be used.  Now I am stretching a bit.
Also the "normal" form is more efficient as it avoids redundant
writes to /dev/null.

I'm 50:50 on changing now.

Pádraig