Package: psmisc
Version: 21.6-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
A command like:
$ pstree | less
prints terminal special codes to a plain pipe, resulting in ugly and unreadable
stuff like:
initESC(0^OqwqESC(Bamule
ESC(0^OtqESC(Bartsd
ESC(0^OtqESC(Batd
ESC(0^OtqESC(B7*[bonobo-activati]
ESC(0^OtqESC(Bcdparanoia
Simply check wether stdout is a terminal via isatty(). Patch attached.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to C)
Versions of packages psmisc depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand
psmisc recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
diff -ur psmisc-21.6.old/src/pstree.c psmisc-21.6/src/pstree.c
--- psmisc-21.6.old/src/pstree.c 2004-12-15 12:15:52.000000000 +0100
+++ psmisc-21.6/src/pstree.c 2005-09-03 21:00:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -785,10 +785,10 @@
* command-line options, if given.
*/
- if (!strcmp(nl_langinfo(CODESET), "UTF-8")) {
+ if (isatty(1) && !strcmp(nl_langinfo(CODESET), "UTF-8")) {
/* Use UTF-8 symbols if the locale's character set is UTF-8. */
sym = &sym_utf;
- } else if ((termname = getenv ("TERM")) && \
+ } else if (isatty (1) && (termname = getenv ("TERM")) && \
(strlen (termname) > 0) && \
(setupterm (NULL, 1 /* stdout */, NULL) == OK) && \
(tigetstr ("acsc") > 0)) {
