printf and backspace

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I thought of playing around a bit with find -fprintf. In case you don't know what -fprintf does, it is the same as -printf but writing to a file you specify its name.

Now, when I run a command like this:

find -maxdepth 1 -type d -fprintf output "%pbn"

I get the following in output (using vim and pretty much any text editor):

.^H
./directory-1^H
./directory-2^H
./directory-3^H

I understand that ^H is the backspace character. Opening output with less:

./directory-
./directory-
./directory-

So, the question is: Why do vim and other text editors (tried nano, and emacs) display the backspace without interpreting it by removing the character before it but less does?

I'm running this on my machine (laptop) without sshing anywhere. Using GNU/Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with konsole and tmux.

Thanks in advance.

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I thought of playing around a bit with find -fprintf. In case you don't know what -fprintf does, it is the same as -printf but writing to a file you specify its name.

Now, when I run a command like this:

find -maxdepth 1 -type d -fprintf output "%pbn"

I get the following in output (using vim and pretty much any text editor):

.^H
./directory-1^H
./directory-2^H
./directory-3^H

I understand that ^H is the backspace character. Opening output with less:

./directory-
./directory-
./directory-

So, the question is: Why do vim and other text editors (tried nano, and emacs) display the backspace without interpreting it by removing the character before it but less does?

I'm running this on my machine (laptop) without sshing anywhere. Using GNU/Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with konsole and tmux.

Thanks in advance.

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I thought of playing around a bit with find -fprintf. In case you don't know what -fprintf does, it is the same as -printf but writing to a file you specify its name.

Now, when I run a command like this:

find -maxdepth 1 -type d -fprintf output "%pbn"

I get the following in output (using vim and pretty much any text editor):

.^H
./directory-1^H
./directory-2^H
./directory-3^H

I understand that ^H is the backspace character. Opening output with less:

./directory-
./directory-
./directory-

So, the question is: Why do vim and other text editors (tried nano, and emacs) display the backspace without interpreting it by removing the character before it but less does?

I'm running this on my machine (laptop) without sshing anywhere. Using GNU/Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with konsole and tmux.

Thanks in advance.

asked 10 mins ago

joker

1816

I thought of playing around a bit with find -fprintf. In case you don't know what -fprintf does, it is the same as -printf but writing to a file you specify its name.

Now, when I run a command like this:

find -maxdepth 1 -type d -fprintf output "%pbn"

I get the following in output (using vim and pretty much any text editor):

.^H
./directory-1^H
./directory-2^H
./directory-3^H

I understand that ^H is the backspace character. Opening output with less:

./directory-
./directory-
./directory-

So, the question is: Why do vim and other text editors (tried nano, and emacs) display the backspace without interpreting it by removing the character before it but less does?

I'm running this on my machine (laptop) without sshing anywhere. Using GNU/Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with konsole and tmux.

Thanks in advance.

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