Minor cleanups after merge.

docs/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md

@@ -91,5 +91,6 @@ is acknowledged and greatly appreciated:
  * [gustav-b](https://codeberg.org/gustav-b) - suggested percentage formatting correction ([#80](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/80))
  * [Thomas Bertels](https://codeberg.org/tbertels) - updated French translations ([#83](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pulls/83))
  * [kevinruddy](https://codeberg.org/kevinruddy) - added decimal units option ([#85](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pulls/85))
+ * [xmort](https://codeberg.org/xmort) - added "`--output`" option ([#90](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pulls/90))
 
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docs/NEWS.md

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+### NOT YET RELEASED
+
+ * feature: new "`--output`" option to write to a file instead of standard output (pull request [#90](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pulls/90)) supplied by [xmort](https://codeberg.org/xmort)
+
 ### 1.8.9 - 21 April 2024
 
  * feature: new "`--si`" option to display and interpret size suffixes in multiples of 1000 rather than 1024 (pull request [#85](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pulls/85)) supplied by [kevinruddy](https://codeberg.org/kevinruddy)

docs/pv.1

@@ -347,7 +347,8 @@ invocations in a single, long, pipeline.
 .BI \-o\  FILE \fR,\ \fB\-\-output\  FILE
 Write data to
 .I FILE
-rather than stdout.
+rather than standard output.  If the file already exists, it will be
+overwritten from the start, but not truncated.
 .TP
 .BI \-L\  RATE \fR,\ \fB\-\-rate-limit\  RATE
 Limit the transfer to a maximum of

docs/pv.1.md

@@ -257,6 +257,12 @@ that are explicitly switched on will be shown.
 
 # DATA TRANSFER MODIFIERS
 
+**-o FILE, \--output FILE**
+
+:   Write data to *FILE* rather than standard output. If the file
+    already exists, it will be overwritten from the start, but not
+    truncated.
+
 **-L RATE, \--rate-limit RATE**
 
 :   Limit the transfer to a maximum of *RATE* bytes per second. A suffix