[clug] Cleaning up a "script" file

[Kim Holburn]

https://superuser.com/questions/236930/how-to-clean-up-output-of-linux-script-command

On 2021/03/25 10:36 am, Brett Worth via linux wrote:
 > Morning all.
 >
 > I use the "script" command to capture the output of sessions for reference and have been doing so for years. One thing that's always
 > been a problem is that script just captures the literal stream of characters that's being sent out from the tty so all escape
 > sequences appear in the output file.
 >
 > I've googled a bit and there's a lot of talk about using perl or sed to strip out the ^[[37m   etc. sequences but I'm looking for
 > something better.
 >
 > What would be very useful would be something that would interpret the controls. e.g.
 >
 > $ ls fred^H^H^H^Hbloggs
 >
 > would just display
 >
 > $ ls bloggs
 >
 > in the output file while perhaps just removing the colour selection commands.  I use "vi" command line editing which always ends up
 > looking like a dog's breakfast in the script output file.
 >
 > Does such a thing already exist? (before I waste time trying to do it myself)
 >
 > Brett
 >

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