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Less verbose progress feedback #23

Closed brettkettering closed 8 years ago

brettkettering commented 8 years ago

From Gary Grider:

One of the things we learned in Open Science was that users run pfcp non verbose and then kill it because of lack of feedback. Then they run pfcp verbose and hate the deluge. Then they kill it and run it again without verbose.

Need a lighter weight verbose. Perhaps multiple "v"s, e.g., -v, -vv, -vvv, -vvvv with the last being the current verbose mode. Or, -v with an argument. The argument is the number of files to pass between status update and no argument is the current super verbose.

Users are interested in progress of the copy. So, the number of files inspected, moved, etc. Every 100 files, every 1000 files etc. Simply let the trailer proc count and write status to stderr or out. Something easy to grep. Trivial but nice to have.

brettkettering commented 8 years ago

Merging with #19 and closing this.