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# ipa-server-install -h|less

ESC[?1034hUsage: ipa-server-install [options]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

##### etc ...

The control characters are not printed into the terminal, only when one pipes the output to less or redirects to a file (via '>' operator).

I tried this with a couple of tools from the coreutils package, virt-install and a bunch of random other files, but it's only ipa-server-install that prints this. So I blame IPA :)


ipa-server-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64
ipa-server-2.2.0-11.el6.x86_64

This is not an IPA issue, it has to do with python and terminal interaction:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2009-09/msg00117.html

hmm, virt-install is also python and uses optionparser...

Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2691

Fixed upstream:
master: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/changeset/8c553abbada942dd32bdfc70881b2b0a05f66a13
ipa-3-0: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/changeset/35827a1ca71b98759b18acdec521935533cf0879

Verified.

Version ::

ipa-server-3.3.3-5.el7.x86_64

Test Results ::

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: [   LOG    ] :: ipa_bugcheck_bz817070:  ipa-server-install -h less prints a couple of junk characters on the first line
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

ipa-server-3.3.3-5.el7.x86_64
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'ipa-server-install -h > /tmp/tmpout.ipa_bugcheck_bz817070 2>&1' (Expected 0, got 0)
:: [   PASS   ] :: File '/tmp/tmpout.ipa_bugcheck_bz817070' should not contain '[[:cntrl:]]' 
:: [   PASS   ] :: BZ 817070 not found

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