Hi.
I am a novice to using info-zip, but I have started using it in the last few months for an automatic backup script and it has been working fairly well. I do log the output of all of the commands in the script, but was looking for something a little less verbose than the default output. 

Here's what I'm getting:

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  adding: data/31840686.DCT (184 bytes security) (deflated 83%)
  adding: data/31840686.DCX (184 bytes security) (deflated 92%)
  adding: data/32013618.TXT (160 bytes security) (stored 0%)
  adding: data/32162811.DBC (184 bytes security) (deflated 86%)
  

I really don't need a list of exactly which files were added to the archive. I have tried using the -q (quiet) switch, but I want to be able to see any error message generated. Some of the files are being pulled over the network and I want to make sure this is happening correctly.

Is there some way to have the output be less wordy than the default, but more verbose than the quiet mode?

edit: 1724 lines per day is a lot to scroll through. Additionally, I was hoping for some way to log a summary. "1724 files successfully added to archive", or something to that effect.

Thank you.
-K

   Does "-lf <log_file> -q" come close enough?  I don't see any way to
get it to use stdout or stderr ("-" is not special), but that could
probably  be added pretty easily, if desired.

   "zip -h2" for details.

Assuming Zip 3.0 or later, check out the log options in the man page.  (If the Zip 3.0 man page is not installed on your system, the contents are included in zip.txt in the main source distribution for Zip.)  The -h2 option also summarizes the various logging options.

Adding a way to send the log output to stdout or stderr has been added to the TODO list.