The convention for UNIX tools is to be quiet by default and fail noisily. A well writ script should exit quietly so you can chain commands. (Or pipe, etc.)
I'd prefer we added a --verbose flag. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Braden Shepherdson <bra...@chromium.org>wrote: > I'd rather we call it -q and --quiet though; that's a pretty common > convention for Unix tools. > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Braden Shepherdson <bra...@chromium.org > >wrote: > > > +1 > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org > >wrote: > > > >> I think this was discussed before but I can't find the thread. > >> > >> Is anyone not in favour of making the tools verbose by default and > having > >> a > >> --silent flag instead? > >> > >> Makes it much easier to get good debug reports and lets users know when > >> slow things are taking place. > >> > > > > >
