[bugs] [illumos gate - Bug #1154] cpio needs a quiet option

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Issue #1154 has been updated by Alexander Eremin.


Gordon Ross wrote:
> Linux and Mac OS use --quiet for this.  Should we too?

Why we should look at Linux.. What I love in sun version: absence of long-options, it's convenient in scripts. Sure it's difficult to imagine some short option for something like '--strip-trailing-slashes', but 'q' for 'quiet' is quite enough.
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Bug #1154: cpio needs a quiet option
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1154

Author: Gary Mills
Status: New
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
Difficulty: Medium
Tags: needs-triage


I've written a few scripts that use `cpio' internally.
They all print `NN blocks' to standard error.  I could
redirect stderr to /dev/null but that would suppress
all error messages.  A `-q' option to suppress only the
block count message would solve this annoyance.



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