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This did job for me:

$ cat typescript | ansi2txt | col -bp > typescript.txt.bp $ cat -v typescript.txt.bp 

script command captures into typescript file ansi2txt - converts ansi code with escapes like colorcodes, backspaces etc into regular text, however I found that couple escapes still left. col -bp - removed them completely.

I’ve tested this on latest Ubuntu disco, and it works.

I would prefer to use specialized tools to convert script output into plain text, which is constantly supported and well tested, over custom regexp. So this did job for me:

$ cat typescript | ansi2txt | col -bp > typescript.txt.bp $ cat -v typescript.txt.bp 

script command captures into typescript file ansi2txt - converts ansi code with escapes like colorcodes, backspaces etc into regular text, however I found that couple escapes still left. col -bp - removed them completely.

I’ve tested this on latest Ubuntu disco, and it works.

This did job for me:

$ cat typescript | ansi2txt | col -bp > typescript.txt.bp $ cat -v typescript.txt.bp 

This did job for me:

$ cat typescript | ansi2txt | col -bp > typescript.txt.bp $ cat -v typescript.txt.bp 

script command captures into typescript file ansi2txt - converts ansi code with escapes like colorcodes, backspaces etc into regular text, however I found that couple escapes still left. col -bp - removed them completely.

I’ve tested this on latest Ubuntu disco, and it works.

This did job for me

cat typescript | ansi2txt | col -bp > typescript.txt.bp   cat -v typescript.txt.bp 

This did job for me:

$ cat typescript | ansi2txt | col -bp > typescript.txt.bp  $ cat -v typescript.txt.bp