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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Print Terminal Output Exactly how it Appears in the Terminal to a New Text File Post 302970081 by mrm5102 on Friday 1st of April 2016 02:35:49 PM
Old 04-01-2016
Print Terminal Output Exactly how it Appears in the Terminal to a New Text File
Hello All,

I have a text file containing output from a command that contains lots of escape/control characters that when viewed using vi or view, looks like jibberish. But when viewed using the cat command the output is formatted properly.

Is there any way to take the output from the cat command, exactly how it is displays in the terminal and print it to another text file...?

So basically it would be like the new text file contains the interpreted output of the first file. Almost as though I just copy and pasted the terminal output to a text file, so the new text file wouldn't show the control characters... Does that make sense?

For example:
One line from file1.txt Contains:
Code:
server           37290556^[[29G4.5    user


Then `cat` prints:
Code:
server           37290556   4.5    user

I've tried a few different things like redirection of cat, the tee command, and 'echo -e' like this:
Code:
echo -e "$(cat file.txt)" > new_file.txt

But nothing is getting me the results I'm looking for.
Each new file that gets written to from the attempts I mentioned above, contains the EXACT same data as the original file.

If anyone has ANY thoughts or suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated.!

Thanks in Advance,
Matt
 

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cpanplus::shell::default::plugins::remote

CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Remote(3)		User Contributed Perl Documentation	      CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Remote(3)

NAME

       CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Remote - connect to a remote CPANPLUS

SYNOPSIS

	   CPAN Terminal> /connect localhost 1337 --user=foo --pass=bar
	   ...
	   CPAN Terminal@localhost> /disconnect

DESCRIPTION

       This is a "CPANPLUS::Shell::Default" plugin that allows you to connect to a machine running an instance of "CPANPLUS::Daemon", allowing
       remote usage of the "CPANPLUS Shell".

       A sample session, updating all modules on a remote machine, might look like this:

	   CPAN Terminal> /connect --user=my_user --pass=secret localhost 1337

	   Connection accepted

	   Successfully connected to 'localhost' on port '11337'

	   Note that no output will appear until a command has completed
	   -- this may take a while

	   CPAN Terminal@localhost> o; i *

	   [....]

	   CPAN Terminal@localhost> /disconnect

	   CPAN Terminal>

BUG REPORTS

       Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org<gt>.

AUTHOR

       This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001 - 2007, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

       This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       CPANPLUS::Shell::Default, CPANPLUS::Shell, cpanp

perl v5.16.3							    2013-05-20			      CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Remote(3)
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