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From: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
To: iwd@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: how to disable colorized/grey output from iwctl commands
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 22:47:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5255da5d-9068-8629-e4b9-2bb74150d8d8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG17S_NQbJEQdv6twFogVoZ7gc__QNQXwy48qjyHMckGPEVjaA@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Keith,

On 3/8/20 8:35 AM, KeithG wrote:
> I am trying to move to connman/iwd from netctl on a RPi. It currently 
> has a PHP based UI to display the info and allow connections, etc. 
> Connmanctl commands  respond with text (no control characters, no 
> colorization) iwdctl responds with text with control characters. If I 

connman client does not use special ANSI codes, iwctl does.

> use this command::
> iwctl station wlan0 get-networks
> I get a response which looks like clear txt in my linux terminal 
> connected by ssh, but it has control characters indicating which network 
> is connected and the signal strength stars are all present and are 
> either full brightness of grey depending on the signal. THis makes it 

It should be quite straightforward to filter the ANSI escape sequences 
out.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

> challenging to feed this into php to be displayed in a browser... Is 
> there a hidden flag to turn this off? Can this be added? If there are 
> other suggestions on how to best deal with this, I am soliciting 
> advice... What I get is this in php:

Right now there's no flag in iwctl to turn colorization off.  Should be 
straightforward to add though.  Patches are always welcome.

Regards,
-Denis

      reply	other threads:[~2020-03-10  3:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-08 13:35 how to disable colorized/grey output from iwctl commands KeithG
2020-03-10  3:47 ` Denis Kenzior [this message]

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