[sf-lug] NEED INFO ABOUT BOOT SECTOR, SPACE LIMITS

[Akkana Peck]

Alex Kleider writes:
> Not being familiar with 'script' I gave it a try with the following results:
[ ... ]
> My question is why all the '^M's and '^['s?  (..representing control
> characters I assume.) The output would be better off without them, me
> thinks.

Script stores everything the terminal sees, which includes carriage
returns (ctrl-M) in addition to the line feeds (ctrl-J) that Linux/Unix
normally uses as its newline character. Ctrl-[ is the escape
character; you're seeing it because you have escape sequences
in your prompt, maybe to colorize it or make it bold.

I agree that mostly they get in the way. Of course you can remove
them after the fact. For instance, you could run through through sed:

sed -r -e 's/\r//g' -e 's/\x1b/<ESC>/g'

(\r is the return character, 1b is hex for the escape character).

        ...Akkana