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gosha · Post by **gosha** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:46 pm

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

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Post by **localghost** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:50 pm

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

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.

latex -help

All allowed options will be listed.

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gosha · Post by **gosha** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:04 am

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

Juanjo · Post by **Juanjo** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:20 am

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

pdflatex -interaction=batchmode foo

gosha · Post by **gosha** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:51 pm

works!
Thanks a lot!

jhapk · Post by **jhapk** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:54 am

Hi,

when I do

pdflatex -interaction=batchmode foo

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

$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 · Post by **shadgrind** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 7:01 pm

jhapk wrote:Can I turn these three lines off??

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

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

jhapk · Post by **jhapk** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 8:21 pm

Thanks. That works.

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