On 2014-12-14, Niamh Holding <niamh at fullbore.co.uk> wrote: > > Many years ago, FC4 days, the following command run as a cron job would > result in a nice summary email as follows > > /usr/bin/rsync -a --no-whole-file --delete /music /thecus-music/ > > ---------------------------------------------- > building file list ... done > > sent 351583 bytes received 20 bytes 11527.97 bytes/sec > total size is 62922572805 speedup is 178959.15 > ---------------------------------------------- > > The same command under CentOS6 is silent, how do I get the nice summary > email abain? That must have been a very long time ago, as rsync has been silent for as long as I can remember (even back to CentOS 5 and possibly even 4). Anyway, you want some combination of the -v and --progress switches. Try each separately, and both together, and see which you like best. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us