[asterisk-users] Run asterisk -rx "command" and get plain text output

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

Haven't tried this, but try piping through 'strings'

j

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 6:13 PM Carlos Chavez <cursor at telecomab.mx> wrote:

>     The "-n" option only works on startup and cannot be used when Asterisk
> is already running (I tried and I get an error).  We are using version
> 18.12.1.  The output I want to capture is:
>
> asterisk -rx "queue show"
>
>     If I capture the output to a file or straight to the command line I
> get the colorized output.
>
>     I found a way to strip the ANSI codes using SED:
>
> asterisk -rx "queue show" | sed -e 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g'
>
>
> On 8/3/2022 10:35 AM, Joel Serrano wrote:
>
> Have you tried adding “-n”?
>
> Also, what version of asterisk are you using? newer versions only have
> colorized output when your are connected to the console (-r) not for remote
> commands (-rx)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 08:21 Carlos Chavez <cursor at telecomab.mx> wrote:
>
>>      I usually like to have the colorized output when looking at
>> asterisk output but I need to get some info by running "asterisk -rx"
>> and get just plain text output so I can mail it.  Right now I get ANSI
>> codes in the output.  Is there a way to get plain text output for just
>> that script and not disable colors for everything?
>>
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>>
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