Bash color Character encoding Removal [duplicate]

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GREEN='\033[0;32m' NC='\033[0m' # No Color rimip2=$(echo -e "${GREEN}222b:b33c:3401:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01${NC}" | grep "222b:b33c:3401:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01") if [[ "${rimip2}" == "222b:b33c:3401:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01" ]]; then echo "#### Same" else echo "#### Different" fi

This code always print "#### Different" although the visible displayed value of echo ${rimip2} is 222b:b33c:3401:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01

If I remove ${GREEN} and ${NC}, then "#### Same" is displayed.

This is a simplified portion of a complex code. So my aim is to maintain printing in GREEN color, and then grepping that line which I will use for ssh. But now I cannot use it for SSH until it is equal to the string value "222b:b33c:3401:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01"

How can remove the Green encoding part after grepping the line?

Try with some string substitution to rip the color codes off. — Poshi
– Poshi, Commented Oct 21, 2019 at 15:09

Thomas · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-21 15:19:36Z

You can use grep -o to print only the part that matched the expression, so that the presence of any colour codes no longer makes a difference:

rimip2=$(echo -e "${GREEN}222b:b33c:3401:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01${NC}" | grep -o "222b:b33c:3401:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01")

You can also just use the exit status from grep directly, at least in this simplified case:

 if echo -e "${GREEN}222b:b33c:3401:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01${NC}" | grep "222b:b33c:3401:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01" >/dev/null; then echo "#### Same" else echo "#### Different" fi

In this example, -q would be fine. But if you also want to handle errors, you can't use it, because it exits with status code 0 in case of error too. See: stackoverflow.com/questions/4749330/…

electricalbah · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-21 15:25:41Z

This Worked out

GREEN='\033[0;32m' NC='\033[0m' # No Color rimip2=$(echo -e "${GREEN}240b:c01c:221:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01${NC}" | grep "240b:c01c:221:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01" | sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[mGK]//g") if [[ "${rimip2}" == "240b:c01c:221:2341:88c2:85d7:5cf6:6a01" ]]; then echo "#### Same" else echo "#### Different" fi

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