I suggest you output to a file but then the console output is gone. 

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On Apr 13, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Saul Rennison <saul.renni...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If it's automated why do you care about the amount of output? Surely you 
> aren't going to be looking at the output, and if you are, then something 
> probably went wrong. In which case, the output is helpful.
> 
> I can see absolutely 0 advantages, and several disadvantages, to disabling 
> verbose output.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Saul Rennison
> 
> 
> On 13 April 2012 17:29, Dominik Friedrichs <d...@forlix.org> wrote:
> I dont suppose there is an option such as -nonverbose to prevent the huge 
> amount of diagnostic lines from being displayed, for example for automated 
> applications?
> 
> 
> On 2012/04/12 23:43, Fletcher Dunn wrote:
> A new version of the HLDS Update Tool has been released.  The tool should 
> automatically self-update the next time you run it.  (Linux users may need to 
> re-run the tool after it self-updates to complete the installation operation 
> that was intended when launching the tool.)
> 
> Changes:
> * Added significant diagnostic output
> * Fix bug causing the tool to restart the update process all over from the 
> beginning if there was an error with a single depot.
> * Fix spurious "connection reset by peer" error when closing connection to 
> content server, which could cause the update to restart from the beginning.
> * Tool will now reuse a connection to a depot, rather than disconnecting and 
> reconnecting
> * If the determines in the first pass that no files would actually be updated 
> from a particular depot, it will no longer needlessly connect to that depot 
> in the second pass
> * Added -nobootstrapupdate option
> 
> Basically, we fixed a few of the most egregious things the tool was doing 
> that make a slow update much slower.  Queuing to connect to a content server 
> still takes up the bulk of the update time during peak times after a major 
> update is released; so don't expect miracles.  However, we are hopeful that 
> most users will see modest speedup.
> 
> We also added quite verbose diagnostic output, so at least you can tell what 
> the tool is doing.  Be aware that this output may contain what appear to be 
> "errors," especially when the tool is trying to connect to a content server.  
> Failures to connect are normal and the tool has always experienced them and 
> automatically retried.  The only thing new is that it is telling you what it 
> is doing.
> 
> Linux users: If you get the error message "Bad uSizeOfSignature", then you 
> probably have a bad version of the tool, which was posted mistakenly for a 
> few hours yesterday.  To get unstuck, replace the executable named "steam" 
> with this one:
> http://media.steampowered.com/apps/440/linuxhldsupdatetool_48/steam
> 
> Thanks to those of you who helped beta test this tool.
> 
> Thanks,
> Fletcher
> 
> 
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