Printing lynis reports

[MartinR]

I'm generating lynis reports for some of my machines, but they have embedded escape codes which display nicely, but are seriously messing up the printer. I know there's a tool to convert such embedded layout codes to simple text, but I've been looking all day and not found it! Can anyone help?

Typical printed line:

[2C- Checking /proc/meminfo[35C [ FOUND ]

[avij]

In some cases the program being run is smart enough to stop emitting such escape codes if the output is redirected or piped somewhere else. See if yourcommand | cat makes a difference.

https://superuser.com/questions/380772/ ... ext-stream says you could also use sed: sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' (although sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*[Cm]//g' may work better for you, YMMV).

[MartinR]

Thanks avij, the "cat" trick didn't work, but the second sed menu did. It has stripped out the escape sequence spacing, but of course I've lost the alignment. I'm sure I used to do something at work that achieved this, but I think it was part of the man(1) output that pointed me there, and man has changed out of all recognition from CentOS5 to CentOS7. IT was some command line "col", but I've not found anything that works. Perhaps I feel an AWK script coming on!

Again, thanks,
Martin