microsoft / microsoft/terminal
ssh to server over bash.exe by git windows installer, character droped while some bytes exceed while cat file
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Description
### Windows Terminal version
1.21.241118001
### Windows build number
10.0.19044.5608
### Other Software
GNU bash, version 5.2.26(1)-release (x86_64-pc-msys) from git version 2.44.0.windows.1
OpenSSH_for_Windows_9.5p1, LibreSSL 3.8.2
### Steps to reproduce
1. open bash.exe use windows terminal
2. login into a linux server over ssh
3. cat a long file, some character is missing while specify number of bytes exceed, for easy to obverse, generate a file that duplicate same line, then cat it .
### Expected Behavior
all character display well.
### Actual Behavior
some character is missing while specify number of bytes exceed
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce the issue in Windows Terminal 1.21 using Git for Windows bash.exe, SSH to a Linux server, and cat a long repeated-line file. Compare output when the file exceeds the specified byte count and trace whether characters are dropped; done means the complete file displays without missing characters.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- bash, cpp, git
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100