quarto CLI option to make verbose output

February 3, 2023

I have a quarto project that is erroring out when I run:

$ quarto render test.qmd
> ERROR: PermissionDenied: Access in denied. (os error 5)

I’d like to run quarto in verbose mode, but -v doesn’t seem to work

$ quarto -v render test.qmd   #gives version number
> 1.1.189

And -v after render doesn’t appear to do anything

$ quarto render -v test.qmd
> ERROR: PermissionDenied: Access in denied. (os error 5)

I can’t find the quarto CLI options listed anywhere.

>Solution :

If we run quarto render --help, among the options we can see the pandoc-args,

...... a part of output is shown ........


--debug                             - Leave intermediate files in place after render.

 pandoc-args...                      - Additional pandoc command line arguments.

 --log                     <level>   - Path to log file

.....

Then if we run quarto pandoc --help,

.............. last part of the output is shown ........

                        --verbose
                        --quiet
                        --fail-if-warnings
                        --log=FILE
                        --bash-completion
                        --list-input-formats
                        --list-output-formats
                        --list-extensions[=FORMAT]
                        --list-highlight-languages
                        --list-highlight-styles
  -D FORMAT             --print-default-template=FORMAT
                        --print-default-data-file=FILE
                        --print-highlight-style=STYLE|FILE
  -v                    --version
  -h                    --help

Since the -v flag is not in the list of options for quarto render, it is considered as pandoc-args and for pandoc, -v is an alias to --version.Therefore, running quarto render -v test.qmd inside a quarto project (like book) should print the pandoc version you are using.

Instead to run quarto in verbose mode, try the following,