Silencing cutechess "Illegal PV" output

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algerbrex
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Silencing cutechess "Illegal PV" output

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Does anybody know of a way to silence Cutechess's "Illegal PV" output warning? It's pretty annoying and makes it almost impossible to keep track of the test since for the particular engine I'm testing Blunder against it's flagging almost every move of every game as having an illegal principal variation, cluttering up my screen.
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Re: Silencing cutechess "Illegal PV" output

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algerbrex wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 5:00 am Does anybody know of a way to silence Cutechess's "Illegal PV" output warning? It's pretty annoying and makes it almost impossible to keep track of the test since for the particular engine I'm testing Blunder against it's flagging almost every move of every game as having an illegal principal variation, cluttering up my screen.
You can always redirect error channel to a /dev/null of whatever is the equivalent of this in windows
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Re: Silencing cutechess "Illegal PV" output

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amanjpro wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 5:43 am
algerbrex wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 5:00 am Does anybody know of a way to silence Cutechess's "Illegal PV" output warning? It's pretty annoying and makes it almost impossible to keep track of the test since for the particular engine I'm testing Blunder against it's flagging almost every move of every game as having an illegal principal variation, cluttering up my screen.
You can always redirect error channel to a /dev/null of whatever is the equivalent of this in windows
Ah true, but for whatever reason, I assumed that the warning output wasn't being sent to stderr, so I couldn't redirect it without redirecting all of the cutechess output. I suppose it's not.