bug#80363: du has not a -q (quiet) mode

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Feb 2026 17:05:10 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-02-08 02:22, Jesús Lozano Mosterín wrote:
> I miss the -q (quiet)
> 
> option to suppress unuseful warnings.

You can use a shell command like this to suppress warnings:

   du 2>/dev/null

... so it's not clear that complicating du with a new option would be 
all that useful.