I have found a reverse logic that works great! It translates the regex text back to actual text.
source ./templates/support.sh
populate login_banner_text
echo $login_banner_text | sed -e 's/\[\\s\\n\][+|*]/ /g' -e 's/\&/\&/g' -e 's/\\//g' -e 's/ - /\n- /g' >/etc/issue
Best regards,
Trey Henefield, CISSP
Senior IAVA Engineer
Ultra Electronics
Advanced Tactical Systems, Inc.
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Building IV, Suite 100
Austin, TX 78744 USA
Trey.Henefield@ultra-ats.com
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From: scap-security-guide-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:scap-security-guide-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Gallagher, Michael L
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 2:52 PM
To: scap-security-guide@lists.fedorahosted.org
Subject: SSG generate fix banner text
Hello,
I have what’s hopefully a simple question. Why does the banner text from the “oscap xccdf generate fix” output contain the string “[\s\n\]+” instead of spaces? It’s unreadable on a terminal session. It looks like someone is trying to use regular expression text to match either spaces or newlines between any words which is fine, but the same cannot be used as an input to /etc/issue since terminal programs don’t understand it.
Mike Gallagher, CISSP, CEH
Commercial Cyber Solutions
610-354-4058
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