feature request: quiet output

[3ricj]

feature request:

--quiet -q suppress all messages except for critical errors

It's a lovely app which is working well, but boy it's chatty while doing it's work.

Best,
-3ric

[3ricj]

frankly, the json output #124 would work for me as well. It would mostly be nice to know if there was an error or not in the case of scripting this tool -- the current output is complex to parse.

[mvp]

What exactly do you expect this new option to do? If you want to simply print nothing, you can already just redirect output to /dev/null, e.g.

uhubctl ... > /dev/null

If new -q option is enabled, I can't just completely avoid any printing to stdout, can I?

Regarding json output (not even talking that it's not trivial effort in it's own right), I would expect it will print even more text overall because output json most likely to have a lot more data in it than current output does.

[3ricj]

As with many unix utilities, include classics like rsync and grep, there are options for verbosity and quiet. Normally verbose (-v or -vv) provides additional details of what's going on -- helpful for debugging a problem.

-q is common when "normal" output isn't needed, but you may want to see errors or exceptions. I'm unsure if your app actually reports errors on stderr or stdout -- if errors are sent on stderr then redirection of stdout works great as a workaround.

Effectively: -q would be helpful if it only told me about problems. If everything is great, then great, I don't need to see any output. Much like I don't need a lightswitch that talks. I mentioned json because I could filter out signals from noise much easier.

Current, this is spewing into my logs.. which... is lovely but ...

Current status for hub 2 [1d6b:0003 Linux 6.1.21-v8+ xhci-hcd xHCI Host Controller 0000:01:00.0, USB 3.00, 4 ports, ppps]\n Port 1: 0203 power 5gbps U0 enable connect [090c:1000 Samsung Flash Drive FIT 0307423070005202]\n Port 2: 02a0 power 5gbps Rx.Detect\n Port 3: 02a0 power 5gbps Rx.Detect\n Port 4: 02a0 power 5gbps Rx.Detect\nSent power off request\nNew status for hub 2 [1d6b:0003 Linux 6.1.21-v8+ xhci-hcd xHCI Host Controller 0000:01:00.0, USB 3.00, 4 ports, ppps]\n Port 1: 0080 off\n Port 2: 0080 off\n Port 3: 0080 off\n Port 4: 0080 off\nCurrent status for hub 1-1 [2109:3431 USB2.0 Hub, USB 2.10, 4 ports, ppps]\n Port 1: 0101 power connect []\n Port 2: 0100 power\n Port 3: 0100 power\n Port 4: 0503 power highspeed enable connect [04a9:32f4 Canon Inc. Canon Digital Camera]\nSent power off request\nNew status for hub 1-1 [2109:3431 USB2.0 Hub, USB 2.10, 4 ports, ppps]\n Port 1: 0000 off\n Port 2: 0000 off\n Port 3: 0000 off\n Port 4: 0000 off\nCurrent status for hub 2 [1d6b:0003 Linux 6.1.21-v8+ xhci-hcd xHCI Host Controller 0000:01:00.0, USB 3.00, 4 ports, ppps]\n Port 1: 0080 off\n Port 2: 0080 off\n Port 3: 0080 off\n Port 4: 0080 off\nSent power on request\nNew status for hub 2 [1d6b:0003 Linux 6.1.21-v8+ xhci-hcd xHCI Host Controller 0000:01:00.0, USB 3.00, 4 ports, ppps]\n Port 1: 02a0 power 5gbps Rx.Detect\n Port 2: 02a0 power 5gbps Rx.Detect\n Port 3: 02a0 power 5gbps Rx.Detect\n Port 4: 02a0 power 5gbps Rx.Detect\nCurrent status for hub 1-1 [2109:3431 USB2.0 Hub, USB 2.10, 4 ports, ppps]\n Port 1: 0000 off\n Port 2: 0000 off\n Port 3: 0000 off\n Port 4: 0000 off\nSent power on request\nNew status for hub 1-1 [2109:3431 USB2.0 Hub, USB 2.10, 4 ports, ppps]\n Port 1: 0100 power\n Port 2: 0100 power\n Port 3: 0100 power\n Port 4: 0100 power