On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 03:19:00PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Peter Hessler <phess...@openbsd.org> wrote: > > I use silent ping very often (especially in scripts and cronjobs), and it > > pisses me off that I need to redirect to /dev/null. I'm scratching an > > itch, here. > > Sorry, I think I'm with the haters here. Quiet flags are for > interactive use, where the normal volume of output is too much. If > you're using a program in a script and only care about the exit code, > output redirection is the standard answer. Otherwise, where does it > end, a quiet flag for ls? >
I am a big fan of -q (really quiet version) in scripts. But my script work is in the install media where every byte saved is a win. .... Ken
