10-26-2007
Spurious line feeds
Hi all,
I know this is **awfully** general but.....
I have a script which does, basically...
for file in `find command`; do
some stuff
more stuff
echo '.\c'
done
I want to output the '.' char just to give an idea of progress. However, it works fine for a while and then I start getting spurious line feeds on the screen. The script still works and terminates OK but.....
Has anyone seen anything like this before? I thought it *might* be the terminal emulator (putty) I am using but it does it via a standard telnet via (under windows) as well.
Solaris 2.8
ksh
cheers
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NAME
script - make typescript of terminal session
SYNOPSIS
script [options] [file]
DESCRIPTION
script makes a typescript of everything displayed on your terminal. It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of an interactive
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Flush output after each write. This is nice for telecooperation: one person does `mkfifo foo; script -f foo', and another can
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--force
Allow the default output destination, i.e. the typescript file, to be a hard or symbolic link. The command will follow a symbolic
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Be quiet (do not write start and done messages to standard output).
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-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
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Display help text and exit.
NOTES
The script ends when the forked shell exits (a control-D for the Bourne shell (sh(1)), and exit, logout or control-d (if ignoreeof is not
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SEE ALSO
csh(1) (for the history mechanism), scriptreplay(1)
HISTORY
The script command appeared in 3.0BSD.
BUGS
script places everything in the log file, including linefeeds and backspaces. This is not what the naive user expects.
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