Have the output Marker and markTidyer.

app/Actions/RemoteProcess/RunRemoteProcess.php

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 use Illuminate\Process\ProcessResult;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Process;
-use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;
 use Spatie\Activitylog\Models\Activity;
 
 class RunRemoteProcess
@@ -26,9 +25,12 @@ class RunRemoteProcess
 
     protected $throttleIntervalMS = 500;
 
-    protected string $stdOutIncremental = '';
+    protected int $counter = 1;
 
-    protected string $stdErrIncremental = '';
+    public const MARK_START = "|--";
+    public const MARK_END = "--|";
+    public const SEPARATOR = '|';
+    public const MARK_REGEX = "/(\|--\d+\|\d+\|(?:out|err)--\|)/";
 
     /**
      * Create a new job instance.
@@ -88,15 +90,10 @@ protected function handleOutput(string $type, string $output)
         if ($this->hideFromOutput) {
             return;
         }
+
         $this->currentTime = $this->elapsedTime();
 
-        if ($type === 'out') {
+        $this->activity->description .= $this->encodeOutput($type, $output);
-            $this->stdOutIncremental .= $output;
-        } else {
-            $this->stdErrIncremental .= $output;
-        }
-
-        $this->activity->description .= $output;
 
         if ($this->isAfterLastThrottle()) {
             // Let's write to database.
@@ -107,6 +104,16 @@ protected function handleOutput(string $type, string $output)
         }
     }
 
+    public function encodeOutput($type, $output)
+    {
+        return
+            static::MARK_START . $this->counter++ .
+            static::SEPARATOR . $this->elapsedTime() .
+            static::SEPARATOR . $type .
+            static::MARK_END .
+            $output;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Determines if it's time to write again to database.
      *

app/Actions/RemoteProcess/TidyOutput.php

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Actions\RemoteProcess;
+
+use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
+use Spatie\Activitylog\Models\Activity;
+
+class TidyOutput
+{
+    protected $output;
+
+    public function __construct(
+        protected Activity $activity
+    )
+    {
+    }
+
+    public function __invoke()
+    {
+        $chunks = preg_split(
+            RunRemoteProcess::MARK_REGEX,
+            $this->activity->description,
+            flags: PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE
+        );
+
+        $tidyRows = $this
+            ->joinMarksWithFollowingItem($chunks)
+            ->reject(fn($i) => $i === '')
+            ->map(function ($i) {
+                if (!preg_match('/\|--(\d+)\|(\d+)\|(out|err)--\|(.*)/', $i, $matches)) {
+                    return $i;
+                }
+                [$wholeLine, $sequence, $elapsedTime, $type, $output] = $matches;
+                return [
+                    'sequence' => $sequence,
+                    'time' => $elapsedTime,
+                    'type' => $type,
+                    'output' => $output,
+                ];
+            });
+
+            return $tidyRows
+                ->sortBy(fn($i) => $i['sequence'])
+                ->map(fn($i) => $i['output'])
+                ->implode("\n");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Function to join the defined mark, with the output
+     * that is the following element in the array.
+     *
+     * Turns this:
+     *      [
+     *          "|--1|149|out--|",
+     *          "/root\n",
+     *          "|--2|251|out--|",
+     *          "Welcome 1 times 1\n",
+     *          "|--3|366|out--|",
+     *          "Welcome 2 times 2\n",
+     *          "|--4|466|out--|",
+     *          "Welcome 3 times 3\n",
+     *      ]
+     *
+     *  into this:
+     *
+     *      [
+     *          "|--1|149|out--|/root\n",
+     *          "|--2|251|out--|Welcome 1 times 1\n",
+     *          "|--3|366|out--|Welcome 2 times 2\n",
+     *          "|--4|466|out--|Welcome 3 times 3\n",
+     *      ]
+     */
+    public function joinMarksWithFollowingItem($chunks): Collection
+    {
+        return collect($chunks)->reduce(function ($carry, $item) {
+            $last = $carry->last();
+            if (preg_match(RunRemoteProcess::MARK_REGEX, $last) && !preg_match(RunRemoteProcess::MARK_REGEX, $item)) {
+                // If the last element is a delimiter and the current element is not,
+                // join them together and replace the last element with the joined string
+                $carry->pop();
+                $joined = $last . $item;
+                $carry->push($joined);
+            } else {
+                // Otherwise, just add the current element to the result array
+                $carry->push($item);
+            }
+            return $carry;
+        }, collect());
+    }
+}

tests/Feature/DockerCommandsTest.php

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 <?php
 
+use App\Actions\RemoteProcess\TidyOutput;
 use App\Models\User;
 use App\Models\Server;
 use Database\Seeders\DatabaseSeeder;
-use Tests\Support\Output;
 use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
 use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase;
 
@@ -32,9 +32,14 @@
     $containerName = 'coolify_test_' . now()->format('Ymd_his');
     $host = Server::where('name', 'testing-local-docker-container')->first();
 
+    remoteProcess([
+        "docker rm -f $(docker ps --filter='name={$coolifyNamePrefix}*' -aq)"
+    ], $host);
+
     // Assert there's no containers start with coolify_test_*
     $activity = remoteProcess([$areThereCoolifyTestContainers], $host);
-    $containers = formatDockerCmdOutputToJson($activity->description);
+    $tidyOutput = (new TidyOutput($activity))();
+    $containers = formatDockerCmdOutputToJson($tidyOutput);
     expect($containers)->toBeEmpty();
 
     // start a container nginx -d --name = $containerName
@@ -43,7 +48,8 @@
 
     // docker ps name = $container
     $activity = remoteProcess([$areThereCoolifyTestContainers], $host);
-    $containers = formatDockerCmdOutputToJson($activity->description);
+    $tidyOutput = (new TidyOutput($activity))();
+    $containers = formatDockerCmdOutputToJson($tidyOutput);
     expect($containers->where('Names', $containerName)->count())->toBe(1);
 
     // Stop testing containers

tests/Feature/RemoteProcessTest.php

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?php
+
+use App\Actions\RemoteProcess\RunRemoteProcess;
+use App\Actions\RemoteProcess\TidyOutput;
+use App\Models\Server;
+use Database\Seeders\DatabaseSeeder;
+use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
+use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase;
+
+uses(RefreshDatabase::class);
+uses(DatabaseMigrations::class);
+
+beforeEach(function () {
+    $this->seed(DatabaseSeeder::class);
+});
+
+it('outputs correctly', function () {
+
+    $host = Server::where('name', 'testing-local-docker-container')->first();
+
+    $activity = remoteProcess([
+        'pwd',
+        'x=1; while  [ $x -le 3 ]; do sleep 0.1 && echo "Welcome $x times" $(( x++ )); done',
+    ], $host);
+
+
+    preg_match(RunRemoteProcess::MARK_REGEX, $activity->description, $matchesInRawContent);
+    $out = (new TidyOutput($activity))();
+    preg_match(RunRemoteProcess::MARK_REGEX, $out, $matchesInTidyOutput);
+
+    expect($matchesInRawContent)
+        ->not()->toBeEmpty()
+        ->and($matchesInTidyOutput)
+        ->toBeEmpty();
+
+});

tests/Unit/ExampleTest.php

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-test('that true is true', function () {
-    expect(true)->toBeTrue();
-});