Re: Weird behaviour when entering the filename

[Michael Albinus]

Francis Moreau <address@hidden> writes:

> Ok it was failing because the remote host key has been changed. I
> updated my known_hosts file and now it works as expected.

Good to know!

> I'm trying the telnet method on an embedded system (that could be the
> reason since it's using ash as shell) but tramp fails to open any
> files.
>
> 11:59:53.479221 tramp-send-command (6) # (test -e /etc || test -h /etc) && 
> /bin/ls -ildn /etc
> 11:59:53.525348 tramp-wait-for-regexp (6) # 
>  
>    9943 drwxr-xr-x   30 0        0            5184 Jan 22 09:16 
> /etc
> ///3e676d1e22848e7fe9f94f375a0fe5ee#$

You see, that the "ls" comman adds some control characters, likely for
coloring. You must suppress it on the remote side. See the Tramp manual
for instructions.

Best regards, Michael.