Re: [PLUG] php pipe to less broken?

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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Amir:

Maybe some control characters could be in the output stream?

Instead of less try  piping your output through  | cat -vet

This will show the EOL as $ and a carriage return as ^M
Other control characters in a similar way: (BEL = ^G, etc.)

Hope that helps.

Eric


On 07/19/2012 01:46 PM, Amir Tahvildaran wrote:
> Not sure what's going on here.  On a CentOS 6.2 vm when I pipe php output to less I wind up in some weird mode where "j" and "k" don't move up and down, instead they just queue up at this colon prompt.
> 
> :jkjk
> 
> If I hit enter after it sort of goes up/down by a line.  If I hit gg or G and then enter I get to the top or bottom of the file.  Similarly 'q<enter>' get's me out of it.
> 
> Is anyone familiar with this mode of less?  Same thing happens for more.  Same thing happens if I throw tee in the middle (and I can less the tee'd file normally afterwards too).
> 
> It seems to only be for PHP output, if I cat a file to less it works as expected.  If I write a bash script it also works as expected.  I tried getting php to exit(0) or exit(1).  The php script runs and exits as normal (AFAIK) without the pipe.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -Amir
> 
> $ php -version PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Jul  3 2012 16:40:30)
> 
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