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Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Terminal - Remove color codes (special characters) with sed
sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]//g"
2012-06-12 11:20:46
User: rcbarnes
Functions: sed
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Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Handles the color codes intended for 256-color terminals (such as xterm-(256)color and urxvt-unicode-256color), in addition to the standard 16-color ANSI forms. Overkill for strict ANSI output, see other options for something simpler.

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sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]//g"
2009-09-23 12:06:33
User: Cowboy
Functions: sed
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Remove color codes (special characters) with sed
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sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,3}((;[0-9]{1,3})*)?)?[m|K]//g
2009-11-03 00:34:06
User: vaejovis
Functions: sed
Tags: color ascii colors ansi
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Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Removes ANSI color and end of line codes to the [{attr1};...;{attrn}m format.

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sed -r "s:\x1B\[[0-9;]*[mK]::g"'
2010-07-22 05:37:25
User: roylez
Functions: sed
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Remove color codes (special characters) with sed
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sed -r 's/'$(echo -e "\033")'\[[0-9]{1,2}(;([0-9]{1,2})?)?[mK]//g'
2012-01-04 20:57:09
User: frntn
Functions: echo sed
Tags: bash sed
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Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Remove ANSI colors from stream or file

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sed "s,\x1B\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z],,g"
2013-03-18 14:49:30
User: Zhoul
Functions: sed
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Remove ( color / special / escape / ANSI ) codes, from text, with sed

Remove ( color / special / escape / ANSI ) codes, from text, with sed

Credit to the original folks who I've copied this command from.

The diff here is:

Theirs: [m|K]

Theirs is supposed to remove \E[NUMBERS;NUMBERS[m OR K]

This statement is incorrect in 2 ways.

1. The letters m and K are two of more than 20+ possible letters that can end these sequences.

2. Inside []'s , OR is already assumed, so they are also looking for sequences ending with | which is not correct.

This : [a-zA-Z]

This resolves the "OR" issue noted above, and takes care of all sequences, as they all end with a lower or upper cased letter.

This ensures 100% of any escape code 'mess' is removed.

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