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

[Alex Henrie]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:06 AM Christian Groessler
<chris@groessler.org> wrote:
>
> On 1/21/21 7:00 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> >
> > tee -q file
> >
> > is simple, is readable, ...
>
> ... and incompatible to anything else.
>
> All the examples you gave in your previous email work on (I'd say) 99%
> of *nix systems.
>
> "tee -q" will only work on systems with coreutils installed.
>
> Why do you want to become incompatible for a task which can be
> accomplished in compatible means?

Because usually when I have this problem, I'm typing a command
directly into the shell, or writing a script for my own personal use.
`tee -q` would save me quite a bit of typing.

That said, I would love to see `tee -q` added to a future revision of
POSIX and adopted everywhere.

-Alex