Alright, I have this script that pulls files from a few locations, process those files, creates a zip file, rsync's it and then removes everything.

The problem that I'm having is that I do not know how large the rsync'ed zip file is going to be. Right now I'm using a sleep command before I remove all the files and directories created, however I'm uncomfortable in leaving it like this. All it would take would be a large file that it needs to rsync and the script would delete the file before it's done being transferred.

So, is there a way of having the script check the progress of rsync? If not, how would I go about doing something along these lines?

If this is a Bash shell script you could try the 'wait' command.

See more here - Job Control Commands

Hope this helps.

I like to use a lock file. This way the script will loop till lock file is gone than re execute:

#
# create name for lock file
#
lockDir="/root/lock_files"
lockFilePath="$lockDir/file.lock"
#
#
#
# Loop through servers until file is no longer exists
#  
while [ -e "$lockFilePath" ]
do

   exit
done
#
#
#
# create new lock file
#
touch $lockFilePath
#
#
#
# loop through servers and sync docroots and code
#
/usr/bin/rsync  --stats -e ssh -rlvtgoDz --delete  /dir/dir/dir/ root@server:/dir/dir/dir/ &
#
#
#
# Remove lock file........
#
rm -f $lockFilePath

For some reason the wait command doesn't work according to the documentation that you gave me. I've tried just doing this...

rsync -urza -e "ssh -i rsync-key -l username -p xxxx" /filepath/filename.zip webserv:/filepath/

wait

lockDir="/root/lock_files"
lockFilePath="$lockDir/file.lock"

while [ -e "$lockFilePath" ]
do

   exit
done

touch $lockFilePath

/usr/bin/rsync  --stats -e ssh -rlvtgoDz --delete  /dir/dir/dir/ root@server:/dir/dir/dir/ &

rm -f $lockFilePath

If I understand this correctly, you're looking for a way to make sure that the rsync completes successfully before moving on to the rest of your script. bash would allow you to do this with the '&&' operator (in this case rsync is command1 ):

command1 && command2

rsync -options file.xx remotehost:/path/to/store && rm file.xx