7z should have a -q (quiet) option: when one wants to add many files
(e.g. several thousands) to an archive, getting all this output is
very annoying and even makes 7z much slower under some conditions.

Agreed. In my opinion the default output should only include a summary, with -v/-q options to list individual files/only report errors.



Anyone looking into this? Would a patch be useful?

Le 27/07/11 15:18, Diggory Hardy a écrit :

I am not aware of anything done, no. A patch would be more than welcome.

Regards,

Just reporting back to say I had a look at the source code but didn't really
understand where to add the extra options (looks like the author reinvented
the whole truck, let alone the wheel). I *may* have another go at some
point, but don't let that put anyone else off.

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For bug 528200 (which I had reported), this does not really apply to
7zip: The issue was that all the filenames to archive were output,
which could generate a lot of output and make the command slower. 7z
from 7zip does not do that, thus it is fine for me.

But bug 528200 was merged with 346463, for which the request was
different: "please provide a quiet version which writes absolutely
nothing to stdout (and stderr) if everything is OK".

I let the reporter of bug 346463 (or anyone else) report a new bug
on 7zip if this is still needed (the man page for 7z from 7zip does
not mention the requested feature).