rsync: omit summary with a single -v

Dave Dykstra dwd at bell-labs.com
Thu Aug 1 09:02:04 EST 2002


On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:09:04PM -0700, Peter E. Popovich wrote:
> I'm having a similar-but-different issues when scripting multiple rsyncs.  
> I'd like to do a dry run each with the -n option, display the aggregated
> output and prompt the user for approval before proceeding. In testing,
> I've found that if the server has an motd message, the output gets 
> unweildy.
> 
> I searching for a solution, I found a patch that included a --no-motd
> option at http://samba.anu.edu.au/cgi-bin/rsync/incoming?id=2879 but it
> apparently hasn't been incorporated into the release.
> 
> I hadn't realized that --log-format was so versatile though. It would
> certainly do the trick if it could be extended to -n.
> 
> Thoughs?


I think it would be great if someone would at least fix log-format to 
work with -n.

- Dave




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