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Manipulation or examining of text by programs, scripts, etc.

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Removing control chars (including console codes / colours) from script output

I would use sed in this case: cat -v typescript | sed -e "s/\x1b\[.\{1,5\}m//g" sed -e "s/search/replace/g" is standard stuff. The regex is explained as below: \x1b match the Escape preceeding th …
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