我需要以什么格式导出lynis才能保留彩色输出？

Question

I have successfully exported lynis' output in terminal to a .txt file but when I tried to show it in my laravel modal, the colour codes become boxes of unknown characters (like when you send chinese text but its not supported by the device.

I have tried exporting it to .odt, .rtf and so on but the result is the same.

what I expected (the [done] is in green)

- Checking profiles...                                      [ DONE ]

here's the actual result:

[2C- Checking profiles...[37C [ [1;32mDONE[0m ]

this is what I run in my ansible to get the output of lynis

./lynis audit system > /var/log/{{ inventory_hostname }}-lynis.txt

this is what I use in php to show the contents of the .txt

return nl2br(file_get_contents($path));

I checked the exported results in vim and it also shows

[2C- Checking profiles...[37C [ [1;32mDONE[0m ]

I know that .txt can't have coloured texts. so the question is which format should I use or how do I format it so that it can be shown with colours

Answer 1

I found an answer.

I use ansible to install epel-release and pip (the hosts are centos) then I install ansi2html via pip and do

./lynis audit system | ansi2html > /var/log/{{ inventory_hostname }}-lynis.html