8 bytes of rubbish written to STDOUT upon first write

[Søren Hauberg]

fre, 18 04 2008 kl. 11:52 +0200, skrev a.grahn at fzd.de:
> 1.) At the shell prompt execute
> 
> octave -qf > out.txt <<EOF
> printf("Hello World!\n");
> EOF
> 
> 2.) Open `out.txt' in a hex editor. Its contents looks like this:
> 
> 0000000: 1b5b 3f31 3033 3468 4865 6c6c 6f20 576f  .[?1034hHello Wo
> 0000010: 726c 6421 0a                             rld!.

I get

sh at sh-laptop:~$ octave -qf > out.txt <<EOF
> printf("Hello World!\n");
> EOF
sh at sh-laptop:~$ hd out.txt 
00000000  48 65 6c 6c 6f 20 57 6f  72 6c 64 21 0a           |Hello
World!.|
0000000d

This is what you'd expect, right? Perhaps you're using some odd shell or
something?

Søren