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How to remove control characters and colour codes?
However, this includes all control characters and colour codes. I can remove control characters (like backspace) with “col -b”, but I can’t find a simple way to remove the colour codes. Note that I want to use the command line in the normal way, so don’t want to disable colours there – I just want to remove them from the script output.
How to remove colors from ANSI output in Bash?
IMHO, most of these answers try too hard to restrict what is inside the escape code. As a result, they end up missing common codes like [38;5;60m (foreground ANSI color 60 from 256-color mode). They also require the -r option which enables GNU extensions.
Is there a way to remove all colors in Bash?
If I only removed the control char “^ [“, it left the rest of the color data, e.g., “33m”. Including the color code and “m” did the trick. I’m puzzled with s/\//g doesn’t work because \ [31m certainly works with echo. The regular expression below will miss some ANSI Escape Codes sequences, as well as 3 digit colors.
How to remove control chars in text processing?
To eliminate colors or save the results to a file, manually copy and paste the output from cat into a text editor, or into another cat command, i.e.: I would prefer to use specialized tools to convert script output into plain text, which is constantly supported and well tested, over custom regexp.
How to remove colors from the output of Bash?
If you want to strip colors only, replace [a-zA-Z] with “m”. The controversial idea would be to reconfigure terminal settings for this process environment to let the process know that terminal does not support colors. Something like TERM=xterm-mono ./somescript comes to my mind.
Is it possible to remove control chars in disco?
I’ve tested this on latest Ubuntu disco, and it works. Although the solutions given so far work nicely to remove the control sequences, however they also remove the formatting codes. The result is that the tables in the output are squished together.
Is there a command to remove ANSI color codes?
There’s an ansi2txt command in the colorized-logs package on Ubuntu. It removes ANSI color codes nicely, but it doesn’t deal with things like progress bars produced by emitting ^H or ^M characters to overwrite text in place. col -b can deal with those, so for best results you can combine the two
How to remove ANSI code from stdin output?
The tool drops ANSI control codes from STDIN. There’s also a dedicated tool to handle ANSI escape sequences: ansifilter. Use the default –text output format to strip all ANSI escape sequences (note: not just coloring). I came across this question/answers trying to do something similar as the OP.
Is there way to completely disable coloring for the entire script?
Maybe there is a way to completely disable coloring for the entire script? According to Wikipedia, the [m|K] in the sed command you’re using is specifically designed to handle m (the color command) and K (the “erase part of line” command).