On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:31:35PM +0100, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> IMO there really should exist a utility to strip such ANSI control
> sequences. The best I've found so far is a small program by James
> Carlson, see the usenet thread "VT100 to text utility" at [1].
Hm, sorry, I should have noted that this utility (which the author
christened 'novt') isn't enough here, because it is limited to filtering
out vt100 control sequences; but the attached bash snippet from my ~/bin
completes the job nicely.
> Hmm, Joey, do you think something like this would qualify for moreutils?
>
> Nikolaus
>
> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.terminals/msg/1fdc79377950d045
Nikolaus
#!/bin/bash
#
# unscript: clean up typescripts.
# 'novt' is by James Carlson.
# sed/tr pipeline from a ksh script by Robert Katz.
# (No, 'col -b' doesn't do it.)
B=$'\b'
novt "$@" |
sed "
:x
s/[^$B]$B//
t x" |
tr -dc '[:print:]\t\n'
