General ⇒ latex quiet mode?

[gosha]

Is it possible to run latex or pdflatex in quiet mode, that is without all the output and only having output if anything fails?

[localghost]

When using MiKTeX you can add a switch to the command line arguments for the compiler.

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latex -quiet filename.tex

I didn't find an according switch for systems based on Web2C (TeX Live). To find out if your compiler supports this option, call its help function.

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latex -help

All allowed options will be listed.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[gosha]

I'm using TexLive, and could not find the -quite option. Probably it's not supported.
Thank you

[Juanjo]

To compile foo.tex, perhaps you may try this:

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pdflatex -interaction=batchmode foo

[gosha]

works!
Thanks a lot!

[jhapk]

Hi,

when I do

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pdflatex -interaction=batchmode foo

it supresses all the other messages, but I get the following output on my machine:

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$pdflatex -interaction=batchmode foo
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
$

Can I turn these three lines off??

[shadgrind]

Can I turn these three lines off??

In Linux you could just send stdout to the bit bucket:

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$pdflatex -interaction=batchmode foo 1>/dev/null

[jhapk]

Thanks. That works.