Really quiet operation.

Tom — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:33:38 -0000

Hello,
Can we have a -qqq option please ?

One that would prevent all standard and error messages
from being returned, so that we can make better use of
the (many) return codes that unzip provides. This would
really help those of us who like to script utilities
which use unzip.
What I'm looking for is not 'quiet' operation, but silent.

I don't want to see output at all, especially errors
when I can check the return code to see if there was a
problem, and deal with it silently. This is what return
codes are for, no ?

As it stands, I can't even redirect standard error
because it seems unzip doesn't output error messages
that way.

My otherwise quiet script output is riddled with errors
like :
error: invalid compressed data to inflate data.bin
and
file #2: bad zipfile offset (local header sig):
2448062
and the four line explanation starting
End-of-central-directory signature not found.

Might this be a useful feature to others ?
Hopefully,
Tom Matthews

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