"Save contents" action saves the content of the terminal as a binary file. This causes that you can't use some common text tools, like grep or geany, on the output file. To reproduce: 1. Open xfce4-terminal 2. In the menu select Terminal > Save Contents... 3. Save the file with name "outputfile" 4. Try to run "grep foo outputfile" Actual result: ❯ grep foo outputfile Binary file outputfile matches Expected result: Normal grep output for text files.
Hi Antti, I cannot reproduce it here. Does it always save terminal contents as a binary file for you? E.g., can you try a very short text output? Have you configured your $PS1 in some fancy way that could add some non-printable chars to the output (just wild guessing)?
You guessed right. I'm using https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it that uses some fancy formatting. The Save contents works fine when I disable Bash-it. I suppose this bug report can be closed.
Thanks for the update, closing.