The rsync jobs take several hours to run and I check up on them from time to time. The new progress features (110, 10% of 1100) are especially nice and I don't want to lose them.
I can definitely script my way around this one but it's also possible to solve it nicely within rsync. Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:49 AM Subject: Re: progress & redirects > How about not using --progress when it's running from cron? ... unless > you're tailing the logfile, which should also work fine as-is. > If you need to process the logs otherwise later, feed it to "sed > 's/^H.*^H///'" to dump the display crap... or is it "^M" instead of "^H"? > Those aren't literals. Produce them by doing a control-V followed by > control-H or control-M as needed. > > Tim Conway > Unix System Administration > Contractor - IBM Global Services > desk:3032734776 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi. I use rsync to suck down a large amount of data every night using a > cron job that logs to a file. If you run rsync --progress and redirect to > a log file you end up with the progress for each file piled up onto a > single line. \r is generally ignored by editors and viewers. That leads to > my question... > > Would it be possible to have rsync output log-friendly progress if output > is redirected? > > For an example of how this can work, check out wget. When run in a shell, > it outputs a beautiful, dynamic progress bar. When output is redirected it > outputs periods instead. > > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
