[Spacewalk-list] Spacecmd - strangeness on piping

[Michael Mraka]

Jonathan Hoser wrote:
% Hi all,
% 
% I'm using spacecmd in a few places and I noticed a strangeness, that I
% wanted to ask you guys about.
% I'm still running spacewalk-1.6 (on postgres) on a Fedora16 box, maybe
% thats the issue, but then it might not:
% 
% running something like
% spacecmd -q softwarechannel_listsystems fedora16-x86_64
% produces a nice-enough list - just as I expect it:
% hias.mydomain.de
% ibis111.mydomain.de
% ibis138.[...]
% 
% however, writing that list into a file
% spacecmd -q softwarechannel_listsystems fedora16-x86_64 > /tmp/f16.txt
% 
% results in a few bad characters written in the beginning of the file:
% ^[[?1034hhias.mydomain.de
% ibis111.mydomain.de
% ibis138...[...]
% 
% Where does that strange string "^[[?1034h" come from? It's pretty
% consistent across all pipes of spacecmd that I'm using,
% and its quite irritating, since I haven't been able to discover the why,
% where, and hms? about it.

Hi Jonathan,
It's probably readline library leaking terminal escape sequence to stdout.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304181.
I'm not sure how to fix / workaround it.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat