diff --git a/ci/cppcheck-misra.sh b/ci/cppcheck-misra.sh
index deca8a6f445f1fd72c827cf7fb73264bfb21ddf7..5e03305070946e0f42752e8ff34562e80cd023a7 100755
--- a/ci/cppcheck-misra.sh
+++ b/ci/cppcheck-misra.sh
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 # $ ci/cppcheck-misra.sh
 #
 
-echo -e "\u001b[34;1mStarting cppcheck...\u001b[0m"
-
 echo -e "\u001b[34;1mRunning cppcheck with MISRA C(2012) rule compliance tests...\u001b[0m"
 
 # grab the MISRA addon and the cppcheck addon interface from github
@@ -16,13 +14,18 @@ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danmar/cppcheck/f4b5b156d720c712f6ce99f6e
 curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danmar/cppcheck/f4b5b156d720c712f6ce99f6e01d8c1b3f800d52/addons/cppcheckdata.py > cppcheckdata.py
 
 # generate dump files (XML representations of AST etc.) for all headers, source files etc.
-for file in $(find inc/ src/ -type f)
-do 
-    cppcheck --dump $file
-done
+#for file in $(find inc/ src/ -type f)
+#do 
+#    cppcheck --dump $file
+#done
 
-# run the MISRA checks against the dumps
+# run the MISRA checks against the dumps and send the results to a file
 for file in $(find inc/ src/ -type f -name "*.dump")
 do 
-    python misra.py $file
+    python misra.py $file >> ci/report.msr 2>&1
 done
+
+# clean up the report file from any useless info
+sed -i -r 's/(.*Script.*)|(.*Checking.*)|(.*MISRA.*)//gm' ci/report.msr
+sed -i -r '/(^$)/d' ci/report.msr
+sed -i -r 's/(\s\(.*\)\s)//gm' ci/report.msr