A fixed-length progress bar, a file or byte count, or better yet a timer showing the estimated time remaining would be ideal.

`zip`'s standard behavior seems to be to print a line for every file processed, but I don't want that information overload when I zip thousands of files. I want a guesstimate how long it's going to take.

I tried the `-q` (`--quiet`) option in combination with `-dg` (`--display-globaldots`) but that just floods stdout with multiple lines of dots and gives no useful indication.

I also tried `-qdgds 10m` as mentioned in the man page, but got the same result.

I then tried `-db` (`--display-bytes`) and `-dc` (`--display-counts`) but there doesn't seem to be a global option, so it again prints it for every filename.

Lastly, I tried it together with `-q` like `-qdbdc`, but that just outputs nothing.

Funnily enough, I found a man page on the info-zip site that mentions a `-de` (`--display-est-to-go`) option which should "Display an estimate of the time to finish the archiving operation."

That sounds exactly like what I want, but the problem is that my version of `zip` does not have that feature. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.1 64bit, bash-4.3.30(1) and zip-3.00. According to Wikipedia, this is zip's latest stable release. 

There are unreleased beta versions on the info-zip sourceforge page, but I'd rather not entrust my data to a beta release.