Use tq instead of tee: Add -q, --quiet option to not write to stdout

[L A Walsh]

On 2021/01/21 05:17, 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;
>   
---
   Isn't this what you want and shorter?:

echo 'foo' | sudo tq /etc/foo
>  ls -l /etc/foo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 4 Jan 24 23:17 /etc/foo

>  cat tq
#!/bin/bash
command tee "$@" >/dev/null


It would have the advantage of working  with any
coreutils implementation.