On 10/03/13 21:42, Paul Graydon wrote:
Wow.. why would they do that?
It is quite common for commands that were originally designed as a human interactive CLI.
They automatically become more verbose when they think someone is watching. (ie. when it has a TTY)
You really have to watch out for differences caused by the LANG variable. Sometimes I have to manually put "LANG=C" at the top of my scripts to have them work consistently.
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