Re: What's wrong with script(1)?

2015-01-30 Thread Adam Thompson
On 2015-01-29 05:16 PM, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: Thanks, I had no idea. Would it be possible though to mention some use cases where the noise is necessary? Many thanks! O.D. Debugging bad terminal behaviour - bugs in either termcap(5), terminfo(5), curses(3), xterm(1), screen(1), tmux(1)

Re: What's wrong with script(1)?

2015-01-29 Thread STeve Andre'
On 01/29/15 18:16, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: Hi Marc / Otto! On 29. januar 2015 at 7:07 PM, "Marc Espie" wrote: And it shouldn't ! script(1) is often used for debugging purposes, and that "noise" becomes paramount to figuring out what's going on. Thanks, I had no idea. Would it be possi

Re: What's wrong with script(1)?

2015-01-29 Thread opendaddy
Hi Marc / Otto! On 29. januar 2015 at 7:07 PM, "Marc Espie" wrote: > >And it shouldn't ! script(1) is often used for debugging >purposes, and that "noise" becomes paramount to figuring >out what's going on. Thanks, I had no idea. Would it be possible though to mention some use cases where th

Re: What's wrong with script(1)?

2015-01-29 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:30:51PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:22:52AM +, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On 27. januar 2015 at 11:14 PM, "Andy Bradford" > > wrote: > > > > > >man script: > > > > > >``script makes a typescript of everything print

Re: What's wrong with script(1)?

2015-01-28 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:22:52AM +, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > On 27. januar 2015 at 11:14 PM, "Andy Bradford" > wrote: > > > >man script: > > > >``script makes a typescript of everything printed on your terminal.'' > > That's fine, I just don't understand why it can't do it

Re: What's wrong with script(1)?

2015-01-28 Thread opendaddy
Hi, On 27. januar 2015 at 11:14 PM, "Andy Bradford" wrote: > >man script: > >``script makes a typescript of everything printed on your terminal.'' That's fine, I just don't understand why it can't do it without all the noise and ^Ms. O.D.

Re: What's wrong with script(1)?

2015-01-27 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said openda...@hushmail.com on Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:03:35 +: > 1. Why does it use CRLF line endings? > > 2. What's with all the startup noise? man script: ``script makes a typescript of everything printed on your terminal.'' more can handle the output. less -r can also handle it. And

What's wrong with script(1)?

2015-01-27 Thread opendaddy
Hi, I find myself using script(1) (together with https://github.com/defunkt/gist) all the time. I was wondering though: 1. Why does it use CRLF line endings? 2. What's with all the startup noise? Script started on Tue Jan 27 23:47:12 2015 # root@mybox:~#