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On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:40:48PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
> Copy paste from the screen into a mail
> 
> or try with -pv instead of -av.
> -a waits for user input and can screw around with STDOUT

Also, try adding 2>&1 to your redirect to send STDERR to the file too.
I'm not sure whether it is the case here, but oftentimes error messages
are not printed on STDOUT. 

W
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