An AbstractCommandController that adds a flag "force" to the output* method in order to render strings directly to the console

AbstractCommandController.php

<?php
namespace Your\Package\Command;

use TYPO3\Flow\Annotations as Flow;
use TYPO3\Flow\Cli\CommandController;

/**
 * Abstract base class for command controllers of the "Your.Package" package
 */
abstract class AbstractCommandController extends CommandController {

	/**
	 * Outputs specified text to the console window
	 * @see CommandController::output()
	 *
	 * @param string $text Text to output
	 * @param array $arguments Optional arguments to use for sprintf
	 * @param boolean $force If TRUE, the string will be outputted directly
	 * @return void
	 */
	protected function output($text, array $arguments = array(), $force = FALSE) {
		if ($arguments !== array()) {
			$text = vsprintf($text, $arguments);
		}
		if ($force) {
			echo $text;
		} else {
			$this->response->appendContent($text);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Outputs specified text to the console window and appends a line break
	 * @see CommandController::outputLine()
	 *
	 * @param string $text Text to output
	 * @param array $arguments Optional arguments to use for sprintf
	 * @param boolean $force If TRUE, the string will be outputted directly
	 * @return void
	 * @see output()
	 * @see outputLines()
	 */
	protected function outputLine($text = '', array $arguments = array(), $force = FALSE) {
		$this->output($text . PHP_EOL, $arguments, $force);
	}
}