Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

hyc@symas.com writes:

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Just redirect stdin, and the meter will automatically turn itself off.

It was stderr, not stdin - which after all can be the ldif. Stdout is better.

No, you misunderstand.

Redirecting stderr (or stdout) merely sends the progress info to that destination. Piping input on stdin will turn it off, so there's no progress info to redirect.

Writing progress to stderr is the correct thing to do, because it's transient info that isn't meant to be saved. Checking whether stdout is redirected or not is fine, but writing progress info to stdout is not.