On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:51:29 +0100 Jan Danielsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18/03/16 01:34, James K. Lowden wrote: > [---] > > 4. -q option to print nothing if no error > > Would you consider making it quiet by default? > > It's kind of annoying having to silence tools run in cronjobs, I > much prefer "say nothing unless you have something important to say.". I think the default should be one line of output for interactive use. I'm going to go out a limb and say all read-only utilities in base produce some user feedback by default. If the consensus is that checking, not showing, is the dominant use, then, yes, and I'd suggest chkmod as a name. --jkl
