mjhjmtu

I use rsync to backup my data from one server to the other. This works great.

rsync -aktvu -e 'ssh -p 22' --modify-window=1 --progress $SOURCE $USER@$SERVER:$DESTINATION

The output display what has been copied over:

building file list ...
11 files to consider
./
server/

server/myfile.txt
 3152 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=8/11)
server/test/
server/test/logfile01
 8266 100% 7.88MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#2, to-check=6/11)
server/test/logfile07
 41004 100% 39.10MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#3, to-check=5/11)
server/test/logfile08
 318 100% 310.55kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#4, to-check=4/11)
server/test/logfile09
 8262 100% 7.88MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#5, to-check=3/11)
server/test/logfile30
 40325 100% 12.82MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#6, to-check=2/11)
server/test/logfile31
 792 100% 193.36kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#7, to-check=1/11)
server/test/logfile32
 3152 100% 769.53kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#8, to-check=0/11)

sent 105902 bytes received 214 bytes 14148.80 bytes/sec
total size is 105271 speedup is 0.99

I would like to get this output and save it to a file for reference. So I tried this,

test_output=$(rsync -aktvu -e 'ssh -p 22' --modify-window=1 --progress $SOURCE $USER@$SERVER:$DESTINATION)

getscript() 
 pgrep -lf ".[ /]$1( 

getscript "sync.sh" >/dev/null && echo "sync.sh" $test_output >> outputfile.txt;

It works great but the output are all on one line. It's not nicely indented like above. How can I output it so it will be nicely indented?

tks

man rsync will show an option to log output to a logfile:

--log-file=FILE
This option causes rsync to log what it is doing to a file. This is similar to the logging
that a daemon does, but can be requested for the client side and/or the server side of a
non-daemon transfer. If specified as a client option, transfer logging will be enabled with a
default format of "%i %n%L". See the --log-file-format option if you wish to override this.