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sysstat package

  1. Bug #1716113
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1716113

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

$ S_COLORS=never pidstat 4 3 > nocol.log
still has the bad chars

Further
$ S_COLORS=always pidstat 4 3 > withcol.log
Has what you'd expect from colors like "^[[0m^[[32;22m"

So detection is correct - the redirect runs in the no-color mode (unless forced by the environment variable), but the non colorized mode is the one that adds these broken extra "00" bytes.