rsync - Mar 2014 - [Bug 10507] New: Structured Output (for Simpler Parsing)

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10507

           Summary: Structured Output (for Simpler Parsing)
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.1.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org
        ReportedBy: me at haravikk.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org


Currently the output from rsync for itemised output and stats is nice and human
friendly, but it'd be nice if a flag could be set that would give output in
an
easier to parse format for scripts etc.

For example, with stats enabled all of the relevant stats may be given in the
final line of output in a tab-delimited format in a specific, documented, order
with all values in bytes, allowing a script to simply use awk or read to easily
parse and process these.

While it is possible to parse the current output after a fashion, it's not
guaranteed to remain consistent in future so I'm not sure whether it's
safe to
rely on the format, so something specifically intended (and optimised) for
parsing would be better.

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10507

--- Comment #1 from Haravikk <samba at haravikk.com> 2014-04-29 21:10:41
UTC ---
Just wanted to add that simplified parsing of itemised output would be nice
too, and also with awareness for the --progress option, i.e; with itemised
output enabled a single line for each file-list change would be provided, while
with --progress at least one additional line will be provided for each file
transfer indicating current or average speed and time elapsed.

Output for --progress could be periodic, for example every 10 seconds and on
completion, but perhaps this should be configurable, so a script can decide
whether to track progress over time (e.g - to give output to a user) or to
simply wait till its done to record stats.

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