Want cpio to run silent -- no print to display [SOLVED]
 

Is there a way to get cpio to ... SHUT UP!!!? :)
Doing something like this for a test:

find /u/temp -print | cpio -ovB -Hcrc >/u/test.cpio

I've tried the --quiet option but that does not stop cpio from filling the screen with a list of all the contents in the temp path. I don't want any progress display. Just want cpio to do the deed and stay silent about the whole process. Google not being my friend on this search :(

can you not just chuck stderr to /dev/null?


find /u/temp -print | cpio -ovB -Hcrc >/u/test.cpio 2> /dev/null

Thanks acid_kewpie :doh: ... that did the trick. :hattip: I tried similar but had it turned around like this and cpio complained too many arguments:

find /u/temp -print | cpio -ovB -Hcrc >/u/test.cpio >/dev/null 2>&1


Your solution (this) works great!!:

find /u/temp -print | cpio -ovB -Hcrc >/u/test.cpio 2> /dev/null

Ahh well by pushing 2>&1 you're redirecting the debug data into the raw cpio output and buggering it all up royally!

If you don't want it to print the file listing, why are you using specifically telling cpio to do so with -v (verbose)? I'm not sure how you had trouble finding this. Forget Google if you started by reading the man/info page or the options section of the online cpio manual you would have seen that -v is to "List the files processed". ;)

Remove the -v to get rid of the list and add --quiet (to prevent the summary of blocks copied from being printed).

EDIT: What you wanted was this: