But it can easily strip the garbage from that file when you need to use the contents...
> # ansifilter /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log-20200105 | less On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 12:45, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Robert, > > On Sunday, 2020-01-05 12:17:23 +0000, you wrote: > > > I had this issue many moons ago, which lead to my discovery of the > > ansifilter package: > > > > > # emerge -pv ansifilter | ansifilter > > Nice find. However, this only produces a clean terminal window but does > not prevent all the garbage in "/var/log/portage/" :-\ > > Sincerely, > Rainer > >
