diff --git a/src/arg.rs b/src/arg.rs
index 31400f0..0eab1d7 100644
--- a/src/arg.rs
+++ b/src/arg.rs
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ OPTIONS:
  --threads <number>	Limit the maximum number of tasks allowed to process concurrently (Set to 0 for unlimited.)
  -M			Set number of parallel running tasks to unlimited. (Same as `--threads 0`). (default).
  -m			Limit number of parallel tasks to the number of active CPU processors.
+ -q			Quiet mode. Don't output info messages about successful `stat`ing.
  --save <file>		Dump the collected data to this file for further inspection (only available when compiled with feature `inspect`)
  -D			Dump the collected data to `stdout` (see `--save`) (only available when compiled with feature `inspect`)
  -			Stop parsing arguments, treat all the rest as paths. 
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ OPTIONS:
 NOTES:
  The first time a non-option argument is encountered, the program stops parsing arguments and assumes the rest of the arguments are paths.
  If parallelism is set to unlimited, there can be a huge syscall overhead. It is recommended to use `-m`.
+
+ Symlinks are ignored while collection stat data. They will fail with message 'Unknown file type'. Symlinks are generally very small in the actual data they contain themselves, so this is *usually* unimportant.
 "#);
 }
 
@@ -100,6 +103,9 @@ fn parse<I: IntoIterator<Item=String>>(args: I) -> eyre::Result<Mode>
 		"-m" => {
 		    cfg.max_tasks = config::max_tasks_cpus();
 		},
+		"-q" => {
+		    cfg.silent = true;
+		},
 		#[cfg(feature="inspect")] "-D" => {
 		    cfg.serialise_output = Some(None);
 		},