Feature proposal regarding rsync client's progress output

[Wayne Davison]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:06:20PM +0100, Frank 'xraz' Fricke wrote:
> While i like [\r] very much on terminals, it gets me into
> trouble with scripts evaluating that progress-output.

One solution is to run the output of rsync through "tr" to ask it to
change all the CRs into LFs:

  rsync -av --progress src/ dest/ | tr '\r' '\n'

..wayne..