completely silent startup, for use when scripting

sbt always prints these lines when it starts:

[info] Loading global plugins from /Users/tisue/.sbt/plugins
[info] Loading project definition from /Users/tisue/nl.headless/project

Is there a way to make it not? It messes up trying to pipe the output of commands around in the Unix shell.

this was requested on the mailing list https://groups.google.com/d/msg/simple-build-tool/VZFLPc-TWPw/2B6jx5Y_JF0J and at the time @harrah suggested opening a ticket, but I couldn’t find one

related: #316, which was about overall levels of noisiness. this ticket is about being able to reduce noise all the way to zero when desired.

[willis7]

Its bizzare to me that I call a task asking for the version, and I get loads of unwanted logging information. It makes the task useless for any scripting tasks (unless I pipe to an elaborate squence of cmd tools). This is what I want:

$ sbt ‘show version’ 0.1-SNAPSHOT

Why does sbt make this so difficult?

[ritschwumm]

this reminds me of a related problem: when i call sbt 'show someSetting' from a script, the output is always prefixed with [info]. i can remove that with sed, but there might be a better way. ideas, anyone?