Re: New --quiet option

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Artur Zaprzala) writes:

|> I'd like to request some kind of --quiet option.
|> 
|> Output from commands run by cron is mailed to the user. When I run tar
|> that way, I would like to know when something went wrong, so I don't
|> redirect output to /dev/null. It would be very nice to be able to make tar
|> quiet with some option when there is nothing to worry about.
|> 
|> E.g. I always get the following comments:
|> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

Just don't use absolute file names.

Andreas.

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