How to specify silent/quiet in .gdbinit

Question

You can run gdb without printing the front material, which describes gdb's non-warranty, by specifying --silent (or -q/--quiet):

Is there an option in .gdbinit to do the same as gdb -q?

I do not mind seeing important warranty stuff, but not each time I start gdb. I know I can use alias, but I am curious about the config file.

https://sourceware.org/gdb/download/onlinedocs/gdb/index.html

I looked into website documentation, read the man page, but cannot see if that is possible.

Answer 1

I was curious about this, so I looked at the source. There is no way to do it.

First, this relies on a local variable in the argument parsing function (captured_main). Second, the message is printed before ~/.gdbinit is read.

Aside from an alias (as you mentioned), the only other way to do this would be to modify gdb.

Answer 2

only way to keep your sanity if you are starting gdb a dozen times in a row is:

alias gdb='gdb -q'