quiet option doesnt seem to work

[Matt McCutchen]

On 7/6/07, Dave Markham <dave.markham at fjserv.net> wrote:
> Guys im running Rsync 2.6.8 on Solaris. I use the following options :-
>
> RSYNC_BIN="/usr/local/bin/rsync"
> RSYNC_OPTS=" -PaRz --quiet --stats --delete --delete-excluded
> --copy-unsafe-links --numeric-ids"
> RSYNC="${RSYNC_BIN} ${RSYNC_OPTS}"
>
> Its part of a script see.
>
> Now everything works but in my log file im getting each file which is
> transferred listed and i didnt want that to occur. Im sure when i was
> testing some time ago the --quiet option stopped that type of output.

That -P option stands for --partial --progress, and in rsync 2.6.8,
--progress seems to override --quiet and cause the filenames to be
printed.  Replace the -P with --partial, or upgrade to rsync 2.6.9 (in
which --quiet appears to override --progress).

Matt