Hi, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436432 any idea what is the right col(1) behavior for escape sequences? The current code reads two first bytes from the sequence and the rest is interpreted as standard chars (because complex sequences like ^[..m are completely unknown for the code), for example input: ^[[1mtomcat-el^[(B^[[m produces: 1mtomcat-elBm It seems incorrect. I think for "col -p" all the sequence should be filtered out, it means: tomcat-el and the default behavior (without -p) should be output all escape sequences but do not increment internal width counters. Objections? Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html