There is a new pull request by nmeum against master on the mblaze repository https://github.com/nmeum/mblaze mthread-verbose https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/pull/174 mthread: hide message count behind -n See also: ddd7e54fbbf6747ccefabbbad0087debcaec2ca5 It would probably be preferable to use the same flag as used by mscan (i.e. -v). Unfortunately, mthread uses the `-v` flag for another purpose already. A patch file from https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/pull/174.patch is attached