Got a flow, that tracks some OS commands in real time, presenting output via exec node in spawn mode. The flow works the way expected and designed, but for a couple of things, one odd.
First, I am now trying to strip out the default bullet from the list item, but can't seem to get it to work. Tried to set the list style to none, but that did work.
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Second, the qurik, one I can live with, but would like to resolve if possible. Sometimes, randomly, the output from the exec node, even through there is a newline per line present, the newline is not consistently honored, in the sense that two lines of text end up in a simple list item, so in effect the new line is ignored. I tried replacing the newlines with '
' but that did not seem to have any impact. Below is picture of the desired output and when the output does this odd two lines per list item quirk.
Desired...
Odd quirk...
