nosair wrote: > scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/* ~/ECEJUNE2006 | tee transfer_june_2006.txt > > I get the prompt for password. After that, the downloading of files and > folders begins as normal. However, the file transfer information does not show > on screen, and transfer_june_2006.txt remains empty during the downloading.
This is not a bug. scp will not print any progress output if the standard output is not a tty. Even if it did, you would probably not like the result since it prints a line to the screen every second, prefixed with a \r so that each successive line overwrites the next. If you redirected that to a file you would get a bunch of nonsense when you tried to view it later. You can actually do this with the 'script' utility, which simulates a tty to the command with a pseudoterminal: script transfer_june_2006.txt scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/* ~/whatever However, when you view the .txt file with 'less' it will likely be fairly unintelligible, certainly not a plain text log. Though if you 'cat' it to a terminal you will recreate the scp output in fast-forward mode. Brian _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
