Sunday, July 12, 2020

PSA: When sending people console output logs, especially in PuTTY select "Printable Output" not "All Session Output"

https://imgur.com/a/PC8h6KM

This is just a PSA: I see this a lot when people send logs to each other, I guess they believe that "All outputs" is better than just "Printable" but this results in a mess inside the log and essentially makes it impossible to sanely pass with a search/find function without having to do a bunch of special character cleanup with regex.

Edit: Thinking about it, have "All Session Output" enabled if you need accountability during a change window, but if you're sending someone a few commands and you're heavy on the "?" or "tab" it might be best to use "Printable" to save the other person's sanity.



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