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Hi. I use rsync to suck down a large amount of data every night using a cron job that logs to a file. If you run rsync --progress and redirect to a log file you end up with the progress for each file piled up onto a single line. \r is generally ignored by editors and viewers. That leads to my question... Would it be possible to have rsync output log-friendly progress if output is redirected? For

I have a server that is undergoing some patching soon and would like to make note of any files that have changed after the patching is complete. Can you recommend a tool that uses md5sum snapshots to do a quick before and after test, showing anything that's changed on a particular file system?