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

[Christian Groessler]

Hi Alejandro,

On 1/21/21 2:17 PM, 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)
>
> echo 'foo' | sudo tee /etc/foo >/dev/null;


What's bad with

echo foo |  sudo sh -c "cat > /etc/foo" ?

regards,
chris