On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:55 PM, ..mg.. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks. > > On my busybox 1.25.1 setup, 'man' and 'less' are conspiring to mangle > terminal control commands, like this for 'PAGER=less man bash': > > BASH(1) General Commands Manual BASH(1) > > > > [1mNAME [0m > bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell > > [1mSYNOPSIS [0m > [1mbash [22m[options] [command_string | file] > > except that I see the '^[' as a reverse-video '['. > > > Running 'PAGER=cat man bash' shows the correct formatting, and programs > like nano and mutt run just fine. TERM=linux and TERMINFO is the > correct path to my terminfo database.
Your "man" generates color escapes and expects pager to understand them. You can suppress with GROFF_NO_SGR=1 env var. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
