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Stephane
Stephane

Reputation: 11

Format the "stats" parameter of rsync

I am very new to scripts, but I am writing a little rsync script for my NAS. I am now trying to edit the output of the rsync "stats" parameter.

Because this parameter give a lot of details, and I only need the final results, I start by only keeping the part I want : 

sed -e '/Number/,$!d' $log > tmp && mv tmp $log

So that output for now looks like this :

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So then I would like to remove the kind of timestamp from each line : 

sed -e 's,.*] ,,' $log > tmp && mv tmp $log

So now it looks like this (in Outlook, as I send this result by email) :

enter image description here

So then, I thought I could add a new line. I have tried multiples possibilities, but it doesn't work the way I would like. I can't show you a 3rd picture though.

Would you have any suggestion for me :) ? Thanks for your help !

Upvotes: 0

Views: 343

Answers (2)

Stephane
Stephane

Reputation: 11

Thanks Lars for your answer. Your code did what I wanted, but the problem persisted.

Lucky me, I found my problem with outlook : https://naveensnayak.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/ms-outlook-messing-up-line-breaks/

So instead of adding a new line, I made a very little change to my code : 

sed -e 's,.*], ,' $log > tmp && mv tmp $log

Because there is a whitespace after my bracket (]), and that I add a 2nd whitespace, now my file looks nice in Outlook.

Upvotes: 1

Lars Fischer
Lars Fischer

Reputation: 10189

You can add a newline to a file with the echo command:

> cat test.txt
1
2
3 > echo -e "\n" >> test.txt 
> cat test.txt
1
2
3

>
  • -e enables the backslash interpretation
  • "\n" is interpreted as newline
  • >> appends instead of overwrites

Upvotes: 0

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