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    I'm not sure what advantage not writing to stdout presents, but you could just redirect the output to /dev/null if it were an issue Commented Dec 18, 2016 at 4:41
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    Of course I can redirect to /dev/null, but the command is easier to read and type without the redirection. The advantage of not writing to stdout is that my terminal is not filled with rubbish. Commented Dec 18, 2016 at 22:48
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    I would not install a package to spare a redirection, but I regularly use sponge, so it is already there. Commented Dec 18, 2016 at 22:50
  • Syntax highlighting is already applied due to the tags on the question, the last edit just made things worse by increasing indentation unnecessarily. Commented Nov 25, 2023 at 2:11