[Tips] How to remove control characters from terminal recording (i.e. by script command)

[Aki]

Hello,

Just a tip on how to remove control characters from terminal logs (i.e. generated with the script [1] command).

The ansi2txt program is required (from the colorized-logs package [2]).

You can use the following command [3] where log.txt is the log generated by the script command (or similar commands):

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cat log.txt | ansi2txt | col -b > log-cleared.txt

Hope this helps.

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[1] SCRIPT(1)
[2] colorized-logs
[3] Removing control chars (including console codes / colours) from script output