[abitrolly]

If search output is piped to another command, the headers are suppressed and each package name is printed on a separate line.

As a user, I had no idea that the headers were suppressed until I looked through the code, so I enabled --quiet flag to force the same behavior.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Search results now use formatted terminal output only when displayed in an interactive terminal with quiet mode off. In quiet mode or when output is redirected, results are printed directly, making them better suited to scripts and other non-interactive use.

The search command now passes its quiet option to result printing. Formula and cask results use formatted terminal output only when standard output is a TTY and quiet mode is off.

Changes: Search output

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pass quiet mode to result printing Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb	run passes the quiet option to print_results. Formulae and casks use formatted output only when standard output is a TTY and quiet mode is off; otherwise, the results print directly.

Priority: Low

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 67c2e

The requested quiet search output behavior is implemented without an identified merge-blocking risk.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: suppressing search result headers when quiet mode is enabled.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description states that piped search output suppresses headers and prints each package name on a separate line, and that the author added a --quiet flag to force that behaviour. This matches the c…

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The description states that piped search output suppresses headers and prints each package name on a separate line, and that the author added a --quiet flag to force that behaviour. This matches the changeset, which passes the quiet flag into print_results and suppresses formatted output when quiet mode is on. The description is related to the change, so the check passes.

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Good idea, thanks!