Re: [PLUG] php pipe to less broken?

[Paul Jungwirth <once@9stmaryrd.com>]

Amir,

How are you running the PHP script? From the command line? I notice
test.php has no shebang line. Are you actually saying this?:

$ php test.php | less

Or is it something else? If something else is running both php & less
for you, perhaps it is doing something weird with your environment
(what is $PAGER?) or passing strange options to less.

You might want to also try this:

$ php test.php | od --format=cz

(Forgive me if `php foo.php` is not how you run command-line php; I'm
not a php guy.)

Paul


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Amir Tahvildaran <amir@mathforum.org> wrote:
> Thanks Eric, good idea.
>
> I tried this on my simplified script (which just prints out 10 numbers).
>
> Doesn't seem to have any magic chars.
>
> 0$
> 1$
> 2$
> 3$
> 4$
> 5$
> 6$
> 7$
> 8$
> 9$
> (END) jkjk
>
>
>
> $ cat test.php
> <?php
>
> for ($i = 0; $i<10; $i++){
> echo $i . "\n";
> }
>
> ?>
>
> -Amir
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
>>
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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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