Add a silent or quiet mode for gsutil

[jterrace]

Original author: sethladd@google.com (August 02, 2012 17:40:03)

We use gsutil in our scripts which run on linux, mac, and windows. We'd like gsutil to run in silent or quiet mode to avoid cluttering up our logs with lots and lots of upload statements.

Thanks!

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/gsutil/issues/detail?id=108

[jterrace]

From mfschwa...@google.com on August 04, 2012 02:22:06
This already exists in the latest version of gsutil:
The cp -q option does what you're asking for.
Note that the current public release has some logic missing for this option (still will output progress messages for resumable transfers). I fixed those problems in the next version of gsutil. You can get the pre-release version that fixes those problems (and also supports the new setmeta command) by running:

gsutil update gs://prerelease/gsutil_3.15_PRE.tar.gz

[jterrace]

From sethladd@google.com on August 06, 2012 18:24:40
Thanks for the update!

[twistedpair]

The cp -q option does what you're asking for.

Correction, the proper flag location, since gsutil is flag position sensitive, is:

gsutil -q cp gs://foo/bar .

[zymotik]

An environment variable would be ace!