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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Disabling Backslash Interpretation with "echo -E"? Post 302687349 by mrm5102 on Thursday 16th of August 2012 11:42:59 AM
Old 08-16-2012
Hey Corona, thanks for the reply...

Yeah funny you say that, I actually just noticed that a little while before I read your post... Thanks!


UPDATE:
So I'm guessing I ran into a little Perl version problem on some of our older servers...
When I ran the REGEX on the machine I'm testing this on, it worked perfectly... But when I transferred it over
to another server running Perl v5.8.2 and another with v5.8.8 it didn't do anything to the "strings" at all.

So what I did was, I tried to simplify the REGEX, because I'm guessing it matched ANY/ALL V100 Character
Sequences, but I ONLY needed to look out for the ones for BOLD "\033[1m", and the one for OFF "\033[0m"
and possibly the one for UNDERLINE "\033[4m"...

Strangely though, those escape sequences above are how you would enter them into a bash script, like this:
i.e. --> echo -e "\033[1m THIS PRINTS BOLD \033[0m"

Then if I redirect the echo statement into a txt file, they show like this instead of what's above...
i.e. --> "^[[1m THIS PRINTS BOLD ^[[0m"


So here's my new REGEX (also I changed the while loop to just a 'cat' command):
Code:
outputFile="/usr/local/test/Output.txt"

### Split the output of the 'cat' command on newlines, and insert it into the array FILE_Lines...
IFS='
'
FILE_Lines=($(cat $outputFile | perl -pe 's/\^\[\[(1|0|4)m//g'))

for (( x=0; x<=${#NRPE_Lines[@]}; x++ ))
 do
    echo ${NRPE_Lines[$x]}
done

So far this seems to remove ALL the escape sequences from the file, so I guess
I'll use this one until or if/when something else goes wrong lol...



Thanks again you guys for your suggestions... Much appreciated!!


Thanks Again,
Matt
 

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