From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 12:24:32 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1233) id B0CEA1065679; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:24:32 +0000 From: Alexander Best To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110201122432.GA6786@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: weird characters in top(1) output X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:24:32 -0000 hi there, i was doing the following: top inf > ~/output when i noticed that this was missing the overall statistics line. so i went ahead and did: top -d2 inf > ~/output funny thing is that for the second output some weird characters seem to get spammed into the overall statistics line: last pid: 14320; load averages: 0.42, 0.44, 0.37 up 1+14:02:02 13:21:05 249 processes: 1 running, 248 sleeping CPU: ^[[3;6H 7.8% user, 0.0% nice, 10.6% system, 0.6% interrupt, 81.0% idle Mem: 1271M Active, 205M Inact, 402M Wired, 67M Cache, 212M Buf, 18M Free Swap: 18G Total, 782M Used, 17G Free, 4% Inuse this only seems to happen when i redirect the top(1) output to a file. if i do: top -d2 inf ...everything works fine. i verified the issue under zsh(1) and sh(1). cheers. alex -- a13x