ncal(1) prints control sequences on stdout if stdout is not a tty
Tobias Rehbein
tobias.rehbein at web.de
Thu Jul 7 18:57:53 UTC 2011
Hi list,
being the maintainer of www/nanoblogger, which uses cal(1) to generate the blog
calendar, I noticed that ncal(1), and therefore cal(1), prints control sequences
to stdout in order to highlight the current date. This scrambles the calendar
generated by nanoblogger.
I fixed this issue in the port but talking to one of the folks of our local unix
user group I was asked why I am not fixing this in ncal(1) as the sane behaviour
would be to omit control sequences if stdout is not a tty. Thinking about that I
decided to create a patch:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/158580
I just wanted to ask you fellow FreeBSD users what you think about this issue as
feedback in PRs tends to be slow.
Regards Tobias
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