Hi,
Thanks for the replies. Zentara I totally get what is happening and I have disabled the confirmation dialog. The problem is the script will run but the progress bar does not move. It doesn't even show 100% complete when rsync has finished it's run. My goal with all this is actually a little more complex but I figure I need to get one part working at a time and I need to start somewhere. Your script seemed like a good starting point since it's the closet I could find to what I am trying to achieve.
thanks again