printout sending control codes to the console?

[James Wilkinson]

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

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