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Re: [PATCH] archive: Refuse to write the archive to a terminal.

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MMMikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
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Sep 16, 2009, 11:27 UTC
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2009/9/16 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
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> Josh Triplett schrieb:
>> I considered adding a -f/--force option, like gzip has, but writing an
>> archive to a tty seems like a sufficiently insane use case that I'll let
>> whoever actually needs that write the patch for it. ;)
>
> How about '--output -' instead?
You could always just add '|cat'.
-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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  1. archive: Refuse to write the archive to a terminal.Josh Triplett, Sep 16, 2009
  2. Johannes SixtSep 16, 2009
  3. Mikael MagnussonSep 16, 2009
  4. Reece DunnSep 16, 2009
  5. Matthieu MoySep 16, 2009
  6. Josh TriplettSep 17, 2009
  7. Johannes SixtSep 17, 2009

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