Thanks for the tip! I’ll try that last one because I do need the rest of the output.
On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 at 22:06, Clemens Lang <c...@macports.org> wrote: > Hi Lukas, > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 03:58:08PM +0100, Lukas Oberhuber wrote: > > I’m running macports on a server where the progress bars when building > > from source fill up the output log (new full line for each update). Is > > there a way to silence the progress bar? > > The relevant code checks > > - whether stdout is a tty > - whether the Tcl term::ansi::send package is available and can be > loaded (you probably can't mess with this one easily) > - whether port has been invoked with the -q option (for quiet) > > There is currently no other way to disable the progress bar, but it > would probably not be very complicated to add one. > > The simplest way to disable the progress bar would be piping the output > of the port command somewhere, e.g. using > > port upgrade outdated | cat > > This makes stdout a pipe rather than a tty and thus invalidates the > first condition. > > HTH, > Clemens >
