On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Peter Hessler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011 Apr 06 (Wed) at 12:47:40 +0200 (+0200), David Vasek wrote: > :On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Peter Hessler wrote: > : > :>Sometimes I want ping to be quiet. B Not quiet in the "only show me > :>headers" way that the original author thought was cute, but in the > :>"don't show me anything" way, so cron doesn't spam me with useless > :>crap. > :> > :>So, in honor of that, here is a patch to add -Q to ping and ping6. > : > :What is the advantage of another button over redirecting stdout and > :error to /dev/null? Is the completely quiet ping used so often? > : > :Regards, > :David > : > > I use silent ping very often (especially in scripts and cronjobs), and it > pisses me off that I need to redirect to /dev/null. B I'm scratching an > itch, here. > > > -- > It's the thought, if any, that counts! > >
the shell was supposed to define the interface so that not every program had to recreate it and now ksh has a convenient short-hand: ping google.com >&- the homogeneous -q flags are as problematic as: tar xf - vs. tar xf /dev/stdin seems strange that it was decided to put the - alias inside every and each command that uses it instead of having distinct shorthand for stdout/in through the shell or fs
