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

[Eric Pruitt]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:00:41PM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote:
> I don't have an overview of other GNU-specific options in other tools of
> coreutils. But I'd guess they add genuine features which cannot accomplished
> in other ways.
> 
> But this feature at hand just seems to be a "convenience" feature. The same
> can be accomplished with by using of existing features/programs.

I don't think so. I just picked ls(1) randomly, and a number of the
options can be obviated with some scripting like "-a", "-A", "-q" /
"--hide-control-chars" to name a few. I would also question that
definition of a "convenience feature" because you can do a lot with
Turing complete scripting languages that support I/O.

Eric