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Add --nooutput or similar flag for binaries

Open thethomaseffect opened this issue 11 years ago • 4 comments

I'm using makeself in a situation where I'd only like warnings and errors printed to console like -q when executing the outputted binary and not the

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
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text currently present. This would allow piping the output of binaries to other commands/text files the same as if the startup_script has been run by itself. It would also imply the --noprogress flag. Is this something others would be interested in?

thethomaseffect avatar Mar 02 '15 08:03 thethomaseffect

I am also interested! This would help a workaround in my automated tests.

thecodesmith avatar Dec 13 '16 22:12 thecodesmith

Sounds like a good idea.

megastep avatar Dec 14 '16 01:12 megastep

Actually we already have a --quiet flag for archives. Is it not doing this?

megastep avatar Dec 14 '16 19:12 megastep

@megastep Thanks for the pointer! I have confirmed that it works for my scenarios.

thecodesmith avatar Jan 23 '17 18:01 thecodesmith