[▲ Vercel Community](/) · [Categories](/categories) · [Latest](/latest) · [Top](/top) · [Live](/live)

[Feedback](/c/feedback/8)

# Feature request: add `--silent` flag to `vercel pull` commands

30 views · 1 like · 2 posts


Paul Berg (@prberg) · 2025-04-18

We have a custom script in our private repository that runs the `vercel env pull` command to programmatically pull our environment variables from Vercel and save them into local `.env` files.

Before saving them to the local files, we apply various changes to the downloaded env vars so that we have a clean slate locally, e.g., we remove all `VERCEL_` env vars (since they will be added by Vercel anyway).

We pass `--yes` as a flag, but this ends up producing this console output:

```
Changes:
+ TURBO_CACHE
+ TURBO_DOWNLOAD_LOCAL_ENABLED
+ TURBO_REMOTE_ONLY
+ TURBO_RUN_SUMMARY
+ VERCEL_ENV
# etc.
```

This is verbose, and we don't need to know this information.

It would be quite helpful to have a `--silent` flag that enables users to silent all console output when running `vercel env pull` (and maybe any `pull` command?).


Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2025-04-21 · ♥ 1

Appreciate the detail! Thank you :folded_hands: 

Shared this with the team :smiley: