From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:27:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] archive: Refuse to write the archive to a terminal.
Message-ID: <237967ef0909160427m4d7de120tf5ef3176f75123ad@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AB0C7DE.7030109@viscovery.net>

2009/9/16 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
> 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