RC wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:25:51 -0800 (PST) > "Yan Seiner" <yan at seiner.com> wrote: > > >> No combination of >> >> mencoder ... 2>&1 | tr '\r' '\n' | grep -v '^Pos' >> or >> mencoder ... 2>&1 | sed -e s/\r/\n\r/g | grep -v '^Pos' >> >> seems to do the trick. >> > > The former works perfectly here. > It apparently had to do with buffering... Here's what I ended up doing: ( echo "Pass 1" && $PASS1 && echo "Pass 2" && $PASS2 && echo "Pass 3" && $PASS3 && echo "SUCCESS!") 2>&1 \ | tee $MENCODERLOG \ | tr '\r' '\n' \ | awk 'BEGIN {b=99} /^Pos/ {i=match($0,'/[0-9]%/'); a=substr($0,i,1);if (a!=b) {b=a; print $0}};! /^Pos/ {print $0}; fflush()' \ | zenity --text-info --title "Ripping $TTILE" It only prints the status line at every new % and it prints every other message. I need to eliminate blank lines; that's next. -- o__ ,>/'_ o__ (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ A day may come (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ when the courage of men fails, (_)\(_) ,>/'_ when we forsake our friends and break all (_)\(_) bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. It is not this day! This day we ride!