Tell zypper not to display progress

[Marlier, Ian]

All --

This seems like something that should be obvious, but it's got me
stumped: is it possible to tell zypper to run and display results, but
_not_ to display its progress along the way?

I have 50+ machines for which I need to collect update status on a day
to day basis, for distribution (via email) to admins. This wouldn't be
a big deal, except for the silly status summary.

The normal output of zypper looks like this:
-------------
~> sudo zypper lu
* Reading repository 'oss' cache
* Reading repository 'non-oss' cache
* Reading repository 'updates' cache
* Reading installed packages [100%]

Repository: | Name | Version | Category | Status
-------------+--------------------+---------+----------+-------
updates | libiniparser-32bit | 4488-0 | optional | Needed
updates | openmotif22-libs | 4540-0 | optional | Needed
---------------

But, when the output is piped to a file, it ends up creating a seperate
line for each update to the progress "spinner", or percentage. Which is
ugly, and a little unreadable.

I've tried "zypper -q", and that still outputs the progress meters...

Anyone?

Thanks,

Ian

[Wolfgang Woehl]

Post by Marlier, Ian
But, when the output is piped to a file, it ends up creating a
seperate line for each update to the progress "spinner", or
percentage. Which is ugly, and a little unreadable.

zypper lu | col > output
seems to do it.

Cheers, Wolfgang

[Ian Marlier]

Post by Wolfgang Woehl

Post by Marlier, Ian
But, when the output is piped to a file, it ends up creating a
seperate line for each update to the progress "spinner", or
percentage. Which is ugly, and a little unreadable.

zypper lu | col > output
seems to do it.
Cheers, Wolfgang

Hrm...actually, that's not working for me.

If I do `zypper lu > /tmp/z1 && cat /tmp/z1 | mail -s ...`, the output comes
through as a binary attachment.

If I do `zypper lu | col > /tmp/z2 && cat /tmp/z2 | mail ....`, it doesn't
come through as a binary attachment, but it's not pretty output either (see
below).

In the end, what worked for me was using grep to remove the relevant lines.
I guess the way that the progress meter is coded, it basically writes out
the line over and over, with a reset of the cursor position with each update
-- took me a while to figure that out, though.

The command that I ended up with is
`zypper lu | grep -v "Reading" | grep -v "^$" > output && cat output | mail
....`


Output of `zypper lu | col > output && cat output | mail...`:

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Repository: | Name | Version | Category | Status
-------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+-------
updates | hal | 4963-0 | recommended | Needed
updates | java-1_5_0-sun | 4940-0 | security | Needed
updates | libiniparser-32bit | 4488-0 | optional | Needed
updates | openmotif22-libs | 4540-0 | optional | Needed

[Wolfgang Woehl]

Post by Ian Marlier
If I do `zypper lu | col > /tmp/z2 && cat /tmp/z2 | mail ....`, it
doesn't come through as a binary attachment, but it's not pretty
output either (see below).

Works good here in konsole and bash. Maybe your term settings differ?

Post by Ian Marlier
In the end, what worked for me was using grep to remove the
relevant lines. I guess the way that the progress meter is coded,
it basically writes out the line over and over, with a reset of the
cursor position with each update -- took me a while to figure that
out, though.

Yes, and col removes those reverse line feeds. Here it does :) I'm
sure there are real bash geeks around that would know what's not
working for you with it.

Post by Ian Marlier
The command that I ended up with is
`zypper lu | grep -v "Reading" | grep -v "^$" > output && cat
output | mail ....`

Fine.

Wolfgang