switch off warning in blast command line

Question

[marongiu.luigi]

Hello

I am using blastn to screen sequences and I am using -max_target_seqs 1. Of course I am getting the warning Warning: [blastn] Examining 5 or more matches is recommended. Is it possible to turn off this warning?

Thank you

[lieven.sterck]

it is nice to see though they took the grievances of the community into consideration and thus added this warning ....

it almost looks like the system works :)

[lieven.sterck]

never seen that before, is that a new recent thing? (then again, I stopped using that max_target_seqs parameter some time ago)

on the other hand, why do you want to get rid of that?

[marongiu.luigi]

just for cosmetic reasons, nothing serious...

[5heikki]

Add 2>/dev/null to the end of your command?

Answer 1

[Mensur Dlakic]

I don't think you can remove that warning. In fact, you will get a similar warning if you set -num_descriptions or -num_alignments to a number smaller than 5.