On 2/9/11 1:08 PM, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
>
> Doh! I should have remembered that. So the functions I wrote could have been
> implemented as:
>
> Ntee() {
> tee "$@" >/dev/null
> }
>
> Just goes to show that there's usually several ways to do anything in Linux.
> I focused on doing it entirely in bash.
> - MacK.
Which is vaguely related to the perl "mentality" of never making a system call
and always finding
and using, or writing your own, module (that also doesn't make a system call).
I'm sure perl has
tee-like functions (actually, I remember a perl script named "tee2" that did
write to multiple
output files), versus the more traditional (?) unix mentality of using many
small,
does-one-function-and-does-it-well utilities available in the environment, tied
together perhaps
with a shell script. I prefer the latter, but I can understand the portability
issues and the
perl-only solution to them.
- Larry
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