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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Bash shell problem on Fedora Linux Post 303010058 by milhan on Monday 25th of December 2017 03:17:33 PM

12-25-2017

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RudiC

Is that only for that ssh command line, or for other commands / history lines as well?

That's hard to say. The above example was just to illustrate the problem. It doesn't do it for every command and when it does, it is always 3 characters. For example, I just tested and the gre from a previous grep command was left in the command prompt.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jim mcnamara

I am guessing: On the problem box, there is a spurious non-printing character in the environment variable(s) you have defined. I do not know what you have defined, but if you have local (Ex: .bashrc) files or other "hidden" files sprinkled around you have to validate them to locate where you picked up the garbage.

Code:

/home/milhan > env
LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.lz4=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.tzo=01;31:*.t7z=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lrz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.lzo=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.zst=01;31:*.tzst=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.alz=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.cab=01;31:*.wim=01;31:*.swm=01;31:*.dwm=01;31:*.esd=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mjpg=01;35:*.mjpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=01;36:*.au=01;36:*.flac=01;36:*.m4a=01;36:*.mid=01;36:*.midi=01;36:*.mka=01;36:*.mp3=01;36:*.mpc=01;36:*.ogg=01;36:*.ra=01;36:*.wav=01;36:*.oga=01;36:*.opus=01;36:*.spx=01;36:*.xspf=01;36::ex=0;35:
_LXSESSION_PID=1786
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/milhan/.config
PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=lxde-
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
DISPLAY=:0.0
HOSTNAME=dellwstation
INVOCATION_ID=0d56a9429cc842f4ba3d84cef4f215bc
IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes
KDEDIRS=/usr
XDG_VTNR=1
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-jRqaTqmojPjF/agent.1786
XDG_SESSION_ID=3
USER=milhan
DESKTOP_SESSION=LXDE
IMSETTINGS_MODULE=none
PWD=/home/milhan
SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
HOME=/home/milhan
JOURNAL_STREAM=9:28758
SSH_AGENT_PID=1939
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/usr/share/gdm:/var/lib/menu-xdg
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/milhan
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/milhan/.cache/keyring-VS1SBZ
QT_IM_MODULE=xim
XMODIFIERS=@im=none
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=LXDE
XDG_SEAT=seat0
SHLVL=2
COLORFGBG=15;0
LANGUAGE=
WINDOWID=0
LOGNAME=milhan
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XAUTHORITY=/home/milhan/.Xauthority
XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/milhan/.local/share
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/milhan/bin:
PS1=\e[0;32m\n`whoami`@`uname -n | cut -d "." -f 1 ` :: `echo "$(date) $QUOTE"`\n`pwd` >\e[m 
HISTSIZE=
LESSOPEN=||/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
GTK_IM_MODULE=gtk-im-context-simple
_=/bin/env

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