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