From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] debugging init scripts
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:37:26 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184544446.6934.5.camel@orpheus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184260003.10327.1199851397@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 13:06 -0400, Thomas Tuttle wrote:
> And as for less thinking it's a binary file, that's because the Gentoo
> initscripts change the text color using escape codes, which are
> considered binary by less. (Specifically, the escape character, ASCII
> 27, is probably considered binary.)
it's a funny workaround, but sometimes you have to type
cat file | less
to stop less being "intelligent". Or you could disable it's input
preprocessor:
LESSOPEN="" less /usr/bin/echo-client-2
cya,
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-12 15:32 [gentoo-user] debugging init scripts Frank Wilson
2007-07-12 16:15 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-07-12 17:06 ` Thomas Tuttle
2007-07-16 0:07 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2007-07-16 1:13 ` Ian Hastie
2007-07-16 1:58 ` Iain Buchanan
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