Quiet flag isn't quiet

[kf6kjg]

$ spellchecker -qf 'somefile'

Spellchecking 1 files...

Is not my definition of quiet. I submit that the tool should not print anything, including the whitespace, if -q is specified and the file has no mispelins.

Whether or not it prints all the extra lines and status if there ARE misspellings isn't so much of a concern for me.

Here's my use case:

nodemon --watch . --ext md --exec "find -iname '*.md' -and -not -path '*/node_modules/*' | parallel spellchecker --no-gitignore -qd .vscode/spellright.dict -f '{}'"

Which prints out a TON of lines that say "Spellchecking 1 files...` with lots of whitespace.

Why am I using parallel instead of globbing? It's lots, lots faster.

• 14 seconds across 45 files with parallel: time find -iname '*.md' -and -not -path '*/node_modules/*' | parallel spellchecker --no-gitignore -qd .vscode/spellright.dict -f '{}'
• 22 seconds across 45 files with xargs: time find -iname '*.md' -and -not -path '*/node_modules/*' -print0 | xargs - spellchecker --no-gitignore -qd .vscode/spellright.dict -f '{}'
• 55 seconds across 5 files with glob: time spellchecker -qd .vscode/spellright.dict -f '**/*.md' - Yes this is slower with less files than either of the above - and misses files because they are gitignored. Adding the --no-gitignore flag increases the file count to 27000. Ain't got time for that. :P

[tbroadley]

Thanks for the issue! Yeah that definitely seems like a bug. Good catch.

Those performance numbers are interesting too. If you're running the command on a public project, you could link it here - at some point I might take a look at why globbing is so much slower than xargs.