[PATCH 1/2] checkupdates: add -q/--quiet

Eli Schwartz eschwartz at archlinux.org
Fri Jun 28 20:20:50 UTC 2019


On 6/28/19 4:12 PM, morganamilo wrote:

What's the utility of adding this extra option, vs. just using:

checkupdates | awk '{print $1}'

The typical use of this script probably just cares about the exit code
anyway. There are some scripts which just count the number of lines.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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