PuttyLogCleaner.ps1
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<#PSScriptInfo .VERSION 1.0 .GUID 5290f432-65f9-4fb2-b291-65d848fea68e .AUTHOR Tim McGue .COMPANYNAME .COPYRIGHT .TAGS .LICENSEURI .PROJECTURI .ICONURI .EXTERNALMODULEDEPENDENCIES .REQUIREDSCRIPTS .EXTERNALSCRIPTDEPENDENCIES .RELEASENOTES #> <# .DESCRIPTION This script will read in a log file generated from the Putty application and remove any backspace characters (along with the characters the backspace was intended to remove) for an easier to read log. #> [CmdletBinding(PositionalBinding=$False)] Param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$False)] [string]$OriginalFile ) Function RemoveBackspace ($InputString) { #Find the location of the backspace in the passed string $BackspaceLocation = $InputString.IndexOf("`b") #Get the left characters of the line without including the backspace nor the character immediately to the left of the backspace #which removes the character the backspace originally intended to delete $BackspaceRemovedStart = $InputString.substring(0,$BackspaceLocation-1) #Get all the characters to the right of the first backspace $BackspaceRemovedEnd = $InputString.substring($BackspaceLocation+1,$InputString.length-$BackspaceLocation-1) #Join the two strings together $BackspaceRemoved = $BackspaceRemovedStart + $BackspaceRemovedEnd #Keep parsing until no backspaces remain if ($BackspaceRemoved.Contains("`b")) { RemoveBackspace $BackspaceRemoved } else { #Return back the cleaned string Return $BackspaceRemoved } } Function Get-OpenFile($initialDirectory) { [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.windows.forms") | Out-Null $OpenFileDialog = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog $OpenFileDialog.initialDirectory = $initialDirectory $OpenFileDialog.filter = "All files (*.*)| *.*" $OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog() | Out-Null $OpenFileDialog.filename } Function Get-SaveFile($initialDirectory) { [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.windows.forms") | Out-Null $SaveFileDialog = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.SaveFileDialog $SaveFileDialog.initialDirectory = $initialDirectory $SaveFileDialog.filter = "All files (*.*)| *.*" $SaveFileDialog.ShowDialog() | Out-Null $SaveFileDialog.filename } #Get-SaveFile If ($OriginalFile.Length -eq 0) { Write-Host "Select a saved Putty output file" $OriginalFile = Get-OpenFile } # Read in the file $RawOriginalText = Get-Content $OriginalFile #Setup the array $CleanedText = @() #Go through each line read from the text file ForEach ($Line in $RawOriginalText) { #Check for backspace characters if ($Line.Contains("`b")) { #Call the function $Line = RemoveBackspace $Line } #BEL character if ($Line.Contains("`a")) { #Remove the BEL $Line = $Line.replace("`a","") } #Some newer BIOS output will use a wide variety of escape characters. #There is no reason to clean those ESC items. #Add the cleaned line into the array $CleanedText += $Line } Write-Host "Select a file to save cleaned output" $CleanedOutputFile = Get-SaveFile #Output the array to the new file name Out-File -FilePath $CleanedOutputFile -InputObject $CleanedText |