Need ability to suppress linter version info output

[rmatte]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

Previously the version info of all the linters was not shown by default and required a certain level of logging to see. The way it used to work is that we'd get the possum output and then it would only show linting errors if we selected the appropriate log level to see those and that was it. Now we're getting flooded with this info whether we want it or not every time we run super-linter...

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      isort your imports, so you don't have to.

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Expected Behavior

This info should probably just be hidden by default and then have some sort of SHOW_LINTER_VERSIONS option to show this stuff if people want it. Or it could be the other way around, if preferred, with a SUPPRESS_LINTER_VERSIONS option to disable the display of this stuff. There is already a "SUPPRESS_POSSUM" option so that variable naming would be in line with that. Just need a way to get rid of the versions output as we don't want to see the version of every linter every time we run super-linter. Thanks.

Anything else?

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[ferrarimarco]

I think we can probably wrap this call in an info call:

super-linter/lib/linter.sh

Line 703 in 4a05d78

if ! cat "${VERSION_FILE}"; then

instead of introducing another environment variable.

Feel free to send a PR, I'll happily review it.

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