On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Peter Hessler <[email protected]> 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?
