Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:28:52 -0500 (EST) From: mi@aldan.ziplink.net To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/2725: fetch(1)'s output when redirected Message-ID: <199702131428.JAA29357@rtfm.ziplink.net> Resent-Message-ID: <199702131430.GAA13548@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 2725 >Category: bin >Synopsis: progress indicator even when stdout/err is not a terminal >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 13 06:30:00 PST 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mikhail Teterin >Organization: Virtual Estates, Inc. >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-970209-SNAP i386 >Environment: >Description: When fetch(1)'s output is not a terminal it should not print out the progress indicator. The current behaviour is especially annoying when fetch is used in at and/or cron jobs. >How-To-Repeat: fetch ftp://somehwere/something >& q view q >Fix: If used in the cron/at job, fetch's err and out can be set to /dev/bowl, but then you'll lose the usefull lines: "8218712 bytes received in ..." and/or the error reports: "Not logged in", for example. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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