# pt-archiver writing to STDOUT

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/pt-archiver-writing-to-stdout/4031>\
**Category:** Percona Toolkit\
**Created:** [January 30, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pt-archiver-writing-to-stdout/4031 "2015-01-30T18:33:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![jlewis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jlewis/32/956_2.png) [@jlewis](https://forums.percona.com/u/jlewis)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pt-archiver-writing-to-stdout/4031/1 "2015-01-30T18:33:58Z")

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For the next version of pt-archiver, I would like to suggest adding the ability to stream directly to STDOUT. This way, we can more easily pump mysql data into our favorite object store. What’s the best way to suggest this to the tool developers?

Thanks,  
Jeffrey