Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/progress

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> Modified Files:
>       src/usr.bin/progress: progress.1 progress.c
> 
> Log Message:
> Apply patch from PR bin/28717
> This adds a -e option to progress which causes the progress bar to be
> sent to stderr.  This allows using progress mid-pipe, such as:
> tar -cf . | progress -e bzip -1c | ssh host "cat > file"

Is this the right thing?  Would it make sense to have more options to
control where the output is written (/dev/tty, stderr, stdout), and is
stdout really the correct default?

--apb (Alan Barrett)