Re: New --quiet option

[Artur Zaprzala]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> > Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:09:36 +0100
> > From: Artur Zaprzala <address@hidden>
> >
> > > You can use 'sed' to remove the comments you don't want to see.
Anybody know how to pipe stderr to sed without connecting stderr to 
stdout (if I need stdout for something else) or using named pipes?

> > >
> > Yes, I know. But it would be nice to do it with one, built-in option.
>
> A problem with having one builtin option is that people disagree
> about which diagnostics are serious ones.
So forget --quiet option. Another solution.

To get rid of "tar: Removing leading `/' from member names " add option 
--no-absolute-paths to `force' tar to remove leading `/', thus it won't 
have a reason to display a warning.
To get rid of "tar: foo.sock: socket ignored" add option 
--ignore-sockets (AFAIK unix sockets are the only files that tar won't 
dump).

Artur Zaprzala