On 2019-08-12 11:14:48 -0300, Jesse Smith wrote: > On 8/12/19 4:20 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2019-08-11 17:57:18 -0300, Jesse Smith wrote: > >> For situations like this where you already have a log with escape > >> characters in it, you can fix the output by using the readbootlog > >> program, which is part of the sysvinit suite. It cleans out most of the > >> control characters so the log looks like a normal, plain-text file. > > It does not seem to be in Debian (not installed by default, not found > > by "apt-file search readbootlog"). > > > Which version of sysvinit do you have installed? You'd need a version > from around 2.90 or newer.
sysvinit-core 2.95-4 > >> There might be problems with some implementations of these utilities > >> due to binary data, but AFAIK, coreutils implementation is fine with > >> escape sequences. > > They are not. As I mentioned above, I tested this. This is a problem with your machine. I also tested (with the coreutils versions) and I don't have any problem on mine. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
