[Bug 11378] New: Please add a '--line-buffered' option to rsync to make logging/output more friendly with pipes/syslog/CI systems/etc.

[Ken Chase]

How about

<@andrewTO> alias unbuf='stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0'

then unbuf rsync

i have not tested this in any way.

--progress would be some interesting stuff to parse, esp with all the screen redrawing
of the K/s line as well as background deletes and scans overwriting while
--progress of the previous file occurs. Ever try to parse ANSI screendraw output?

/kc


On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 06:00:19PM +0000, samba-bugs at samba.org said:
  >https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11378
  >
  >            Bug ID: 11378
  >           Summary: Please add a '--line-buffered' option to rsync to make
  >                    logging/output more friendly with pipes/syslog/CI
  >                    systems/etc.
  >           Product: rsync
  >           Version: 3.1.1
  >          Hardware: All
  >                OS: All
  >            Status: NEW
  >          Severity: enhancement
  >          Priority: P5
  >         Component: core
  >          Assignee: wayned at samba.org
  >          Reporter: nneul at neulinger.org
  >        QA Contact: rsync-qa at samba.org
  >
  >Created attachment 11225
  >  --> https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=11225&action=edit
  >patch to implement --line-buffered option
  >
  >Behavior change with --line-buffered would be primarily to --progress - which
  >would output a newline after percentage update instead of just a
  >carriage-return.
  >
  >During a normal operation with smaller files you'd never notice the difference,
  >but with large files (say recurrent sync of ISO images or similar) - you'd get
  >a MUCH more usable output trace in the build system and logs instead of it all
  >being merged onto one "line" of output.
  >
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