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From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: weird characters in top(1) output
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On Tue Feb  1 11, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> On 1 February 2011 15:24, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> My quick check shows that this is a regression between 7.2 and 7.3.
> Reverting r196382 fixes this bug for me.

thanks for the help. indeed reverting r196382 fixes the issue.

cheers.
alex

> 
> -- 
> wbr,
> pluknet

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