[Gretl-devel] Re: quiet option issues with 'append' and 'store'
On Sun, 24 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi,
I'm noticing the following. First:
<hansl>
open australia
append denmark --quiet # still get message!
</hansl>
... despite the doc saying that the quiet option should lead to no printout.
True, the doc is not accurate on that point. Nonetheless, printing a
bare confirmation of the location from which the file was loaded is
by design -- other than that, the rest of the usual printed output
from "append" is supressed. I suppose there could be a --silent
option that truly prints nothing.
Secondly, it would also be useful if 'store' had such an
option in the
first place. The use case is the same as for append, namely that in some
scripts/packages the printout shouldn't be cluttered with more or less
meaningless path echo information.
That information is not meaningless if the command didn't specify an
absolute path. But maybe we could arrange to suppress it if an
absolute path was given.
Allin