From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 12:16:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86BBF1065674 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:16:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C12C8FC27 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:16:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: (qmail 11485 invoked by uid 1006); 10 Sep 2008 12:16:13 -0000 Received: from jhall@vandaliamo.net by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(-1.4/100.0):. Processed in 0.339952 secs); 10 Sep 2008 12:16:13 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.22) by -v with SMTP; 10 Sep 2008 12:16:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 5669 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2008 12:16:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO admintool.trueband.net) (127.0.0.1) by -v with SMTP; 10 Sep 2008 12:16:12 -0000 Received: from 66.84.183.146 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhall@vandaliamo.net) by admintool.trueband.net with HTTP; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:16:12 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <53798.66.84.183.146.1221048972.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:16:12 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Capturing tar output X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:16:15 -0000 Ladies and Gentlemen, I am using the following command to perform backups each evening. /usr/local/gtar/bin/tar -C /usr/home/photos --listed-incremental \ /var/db/photos.snar -cvf - ./ | /usr/local/bin/gpg --encrypt --recipient \ "recipient" | dd of=/dev/nsa0 obs=128K Since I am having tar write the output of the command to stdout is it possible to capture the names of the files being displayed as a result of the -v option? If so, how can this be done? I am not having any luck. Thanks, Jay