[Bug 231340] Re: "Script places everything in the log file, including linefeeds and backspaces."

[Thomas Hotz]

Marking this bug as confirmed.

** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  "Script places everything in the log file, including linefeeds and
  backspaces."

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: bsdutils

  From "man script":
  BUGS
       Script places everything in the log file, including linefeeds and backspaces.  This is not what the naive
       user expects.

  It is easy to convert the output back into what the naive user
  expects. For example, the attached program, parses control characters
  and also most common xterm (and linuxterm) commands to produce a file
  very close to what the naive user expects. Perhaps such a program
  should be added and mentioned in the BUGS section?

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat May 17 18:12:42 2008
  Dependencies:
   libgcc1 1:4.2.3-2ubuntu7
   gcc-4.2-base 4.2.3-2ubuntu7
   libc6 2.7-10ubuntu3
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: bsdutils 1:2.13.1-5ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/bin
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: util-linux
  Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

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