Konstantin Svist wrote: > I have a script which prints out some data to the terminal, which I keep > in a screen session. > Often times I see indecipherable characters printed out and the output > freezes - I'm guessing some control code is being triggered from the > printout. > Is there a way to prevent this? Pipe it through cat -vet? (Strictly, only cat -v is needed. -e adds a $ at the end of each line and -t prints tabs as ^I. And if you have -e, you don’t need -v for Gnu cat. This isn’t true with other cats, and “cat -vet” is easy to remember!) James -- E-mail: james@ | “Why is it we never meet anyone nice?” aprilcottage.co.uk | “Why is it we never meet anyone who can shoot | straight?” | -- Lister and Cat, ‘Red Dwarf’ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines