On 8/12/19 4:20 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-08-11 17:57:18 -0300, Jesse Smith wrote: >> For situations like this where you already have a log with escape >> characters in it, you can fix the output by using the readbootlog >> program, which is part of the sysvinit suite. It cleans out most of the >> control characters so the log looks like a normal, plain-text file. > It does not seem to be in Debian (not installed by default, not found > by "apt-file search readbootlog"). > Which version of sysvinit do you have installed? You'd need a version from around 2.90 or newer.
>> There might be problems with some implementations of these utilities >> due to binary data, but AFAIK, coreutils implementation is fine with >> escape sequences. They are not. As I mentioned above, I tested this. >> If this is correct with "less", then there should be no issues with a >> decent implementation of "cat", "head" and "tail". Sadly, that is not the case.
