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Running checkling -qr <URI>, it seems the report for the different URI it recurses through is separated with a line ---------------------------------------- But there's no way to identify which URI a problem occured in. This makes -q less useful, as you'd have to grep the broken link URIs in your entire collection of files to be able to find where it occurs. I suggest prefixing the results for each URI with the actual URI, more similar to grep -R output. This information would make -q a lot more useful for those of us who don't want to see all the download information, statements about what was completed, and so on, while at the same want to easily locate broken links we need to fix.
Yes, this has been on the TODO list for ages, and a bug 382 (although with quite terse information) has been open as a reminder to do that.
*** Bug 382 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Excellent! Personally I'd like to see -q the default, giving absolutely no info if nothing is wrong, in the typical Unix style.