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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;]*[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/\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/'$(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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cat input.txt | sed 's/\\\033[^a-zA-Z]*.//g'
2011-08-02 05:27:36
User: lingo
Functions: cat sed
Tags: sed ansi
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Remove color codes (special characters) with sed
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perl -ne 's/\^.{1,7}?m//g;print'
2012-01-02 01:32:33
User: Tracerneo
Functions: perl
Tags: perl regex colors
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Remove color codes (special characters) with perl

Removes special characters (colors) in '^]]Xm' and '^]]X;Ym' format from file.

Use pipe ('input | perl [...]') or stream ('perl [...]

You can use 'cat -v infile' as 'input' to show special characters instead of interpreting (there is problem with non-ASCII chars, they are replaced by M-[char]).

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There's an excess quote at the end of the line :-). Care to remove it?

Comment by vjt 35 weeks ago

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