On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:38:11PM -0500, Alberto Accomazzi wrote: | I just noticed that there is an extra blank line in the output generated | by rsync when the --dry-run (-n) flag is used. This seems to have | started with 2.6.0. Is this desired? The reason why I'm asking is | because I use scripts that parse the output from rsync and little | modifications in verbosity can make or break things easily.
While I understand your concern, the design of programs like rsync is for humans to read the results, not for machines. That said, I think it might be nice for there to be an option to specify a filename to store final status information in that is orthogonal to any human readable verbosity. The format of that status should be easy for parsing to be applied, perhaps in "name=value" format, one per line. wrote=78 read=1204 bytes/sec=2564.00 totalsize=457622413 speedup=356959.76 exitstatus=0 However, this would be a lot of work for the rsync developers for not a lot of gain, so I don't think it would likely be adopted. Maybe you can write a patch for it. I might if I get the time. When I run rsync, I do like to be able to run in via screen or a headless virtual console, where I can spy on the current running any time I want. Adding the ability to have a script extract that info, while still being able to see normal stdout and stderr output, would be good. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
