Feature Request: --quiet flag (--silent but still output warnings and errors)

[joshuapinter]

First off, I'd like to say that I will write the PR for this if it's something that gets support from the core team.

Now that that's out of the way, let's get on with the feature request.

I dislike all of the output and noise that comes with running any yarn command, including the command that's being run, the version number, the time in seconds, etc.

I was using the --silent flag in .yarnrc but the trouble with that is it suppresses all warnings and errors. So in the rare occurrence where things do go wrong, you're left with a blank terminal prompt.

What I would like is a --quiet flag (or something similar) that hides all of the typically output, like yarn install v1.22.10 and ✨ Done in 141.00s. but still shows any warnings or errors that appears.

Is there any interest in this? If so, let's work out the details and then I can get started on the PR.

Thanks!

[rally25rs]

As a workaround I think you could do this with yarn install > /dev/null on unix/osx. The warnings and errors print to stderr which is not redirected.

[joshuapinter]

@rally25rs Thanks. Yeah, you're prolly right. Just wish there was a nicer way to configure this. I'm surprised more people aren't asking for this. Again, if there's enough interest, I'll write the PR myself for this.

[edikdeisling]

Want to have this feature too. Yarn 3 produce a huge amount of noise in logs. Im my case my log file has 9000 lines and 7800(!) of them is yarn 3 log. Mostly contains can't be found in the cache lines

[shuai4983958]

I wish there was a feature like that

[RDIL]

@edikdeisling you can use Yarn 3's log filtering features, but regardless, this feature request is for classic.

[joshuapinter]

@RDIL Oh interesting. We're on Yarn 3 now so how do you suggest using the log filtering to solve this?

[RDIL]

Just filter out any logs with the info level.