Output of system function in Linux

Dear all,

I would like to execute the following system command

 [~, res] = system(['TERM=xterm git -c color.ui=false show --pretty="%cd"'])

to get some information about git. However, the result looks like this

 '[?1h=
     Wed Mar 8 12:19:18 2017 +0200[m
     [m

     [K[?1l>'

I would like to get rid of these escape characters starting with square brackets. I already disabled the colouring of the output, because I suspected this to be responsible, but that didn't seem to be the problem. Does it make sense to select a different type of terminal? Or is this maybe some kind of conversion problem?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Ronit]

Hi Torsten,

To clean up the output by removing these escape sequences, you can use the following git options before running command:

git config --global pager.show cat

This is a method to configure Git to use ‘cat’ as the pager for ‘git show’ commands. This configuration essentially disables paging for ‘git show’, causing the output to be directly printed to the terminal without invoking a pager like ‘less’ or ‘more’. This can be helpful if you want to avoid the pager for certain commands or in scripts where you directly process the command's output.

For more information, please refer to this page - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8883189/how-can-i-turn-on-a-pager-for-the-output-of-git-status

Hope it helps!