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Re: Stdout in script

To: Tim Bishop <tim@bishnet.net>
Subject: Re: Stdout in script
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:40:21 -0700
Cc: Antoine Michard <michard.antoine@gmail.com>, tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
In-reply-to: <20150321133543.GD16303@carrick-users.bishnet.net>
References: <CADw6Qk6zJevQ+HF90fVBymMq8ThFGkv3SDVGP3zA9-B3h2FWPQ@mail.gmail.com> <550C751E.6020401@tarsnap.com> <20150321133543.GD16303@carrick-users.bishnet.net>

On 03/21/15 06:35, Tim Bishop wrote:
> I was going to suggest that but the manual page says stdout:
> 
>      Statistics on archives can be printed by running tarsnap --print-stats
>      and during archive creation or deletion statistics on the created or
>      deleted archive can be printed using the --print-stats option.  In either
>      case, tarsnap will print to the standard output a table in the following
>      format:
> 
> Mistake?

Hmm, yes.  If you run `tarsnap --print-stats`, the statistics go to stdout,
but if you run `tarsnap -[cd] --print-stats` the statistics go to stderr.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

References:
- Stdout in script
  - From: Antoine Michard <michard.antoine@gmail.com>
- Re: Stdout in script
  - From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
- Re: Stdout in script
  - From: Tim Bishop <tim@bishnet.net>

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