Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 799029
[RFE] Make console.log even more readable remove whole ansi sequences
Last modified: 2012-07-19 20:38:26 EDT
Removal of 'escape characters' doesn't help with reading of console.log too much. It would be much better to remove/replace whole control sequences. For example this dirty sequence of regular expressions makes console.log provided by beaker (with escape characters already removed) much more readable: sed -e 's/??\+//g' -e 's/\[[0-9]\+;\?[0-9]*[AHBKC]\?//g' -e 's/ \{10,\}/\n/g' console.log It could be much easier with 'escape' included, regexp could match exact syntax of sequence. Server-side can handle it.
That is a very good idea as the mega-long lines actually "hide" the real cause of installation failures. For a nice example see: http://beaker-archive.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/beaker-logs/2012/06/2552/255267/543816/console.log The implementation should be straightforward. Could we get this fixed any time soon?
http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/#/c/1184/
Beaker 0.9.1 has been released.