Subject: Re: bug#22277: 'dd' - stats are not what expected

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:27:46 -0800

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I had proposed a patch to erase that extra
> output with \e[K.

Sorry, I didn't notice that proposal (maybe mailing list problems?).

Is \e[K portable? If so, the code in my recently-installed patch could be 
simplified, since it wouldn't need to count columns.