How to hide nuclei templates list from getting displayed on terminal?

[njmulsqb]

Hello,

I am using your amazing tool and I have one query, whenever I run nuclei it displays all the templates that I am using in my case they're 300+, is there any way I can stop nuclei from doing this? I just want to see results on the terminal. I checked the help page of nuclei but couldn't find something related to this.

Thanks

[geeknik]

Try the -silent command line flag. 👍🏻

[ehsandeep]

@najum98 as geeknik suggested, silent flag should only display results.

[njmulsqb]

Thank you @geeknik and @team-projectdiscovery

[kinthaiofficial]

To suppress the template list output in nuclei, a few approaches depending on what you're seeing:

1. Suppress template loading output:

# -silent flag suppresses most output
nuclei -u https://target.com -t templates/ -silent

# Or use -no-color to get cleaner output without color codes
nuclei -u https://target.com -t templates/ -no-color

2. Filter output to results only:

# Only show findings, not progress/template info
nuclei -u https://target.com -t templates/ -silent -o results.txt

# Or with jsonl output for processing
nuclei -u https://target.com -t templates/ -json -o results.jsonl 2>/dev/null

3. Disable specific output types:

# Suppress stats
nuclei -u https://target.com -disable-update-check -stats=false

# In config file (~/.config/nuclei/config.yaml)
disable-update-check: true
stats: false
silent: true

4. Redirect stderr (template list usually goes to stderr):

nuclei -u https://target.com -t templates/ 2>/dev/null

5. Use -T flag to specify templates quietly:

# Point directly to specific template instead of directory
nuclei -u https://target.com -T cves/2023/CVE-2023-XXXXX.yaml

For CI/CD pipelines where you want clean output, the combination of -silent -json -o results.jsonl 2>/dev/null gives you just the JSON findings with no noise.