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nextflow lint ignores --quiet flag #6856

@mashehu

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@mashehu

Bug report

When running nextflow lint in CI I would like to minimize the logging. I thought --quiet would do that, but doesn't seem to have any effect.

Steps to reproduce the problem

Run nextflow -q lint .

Program output

Linting: modules/nf-core/samtools/stats/main.nf
Linting: modules/nf-core/samtools/view/tests/nextflow.config
Linting: modules/nf-core/samtools/view/main.nf
Linting: modules/nf-core/samtools/view/main.nf
Linting: modules/nf-core/samtools/view/tests/nextflow.config
Linting: modules/nf-core/samtools/view/tests/nextflow.config
Nextflow linting complete!
 ✅ 49 files had no errors

Environment

Version: 26.01.1-edge build 11194
Created: 11-02-2026 21:07 UTC (22:07 CEST)
System: Mac OS X 26.3
Runtime: Groovy 4.0.30 on OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 21.0.2+13-58
Encoding: UTF-8 (UTF-8)

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