ansi2txt(1)

📦 version 2.7, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, epel 10, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ ansi2txt(1) — General Commands Manual 🎀

💖 NAME

okay bestie, this one is SO simple 💅 ansi2txt is an ansi to plain text converter. that's literally the whole vibe 🌸

🧚 SYNOPSIS

ansi2txt < log > outfile

🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay so ansi2txt is the queen of cleaning up messy text 👑 it's built for text that's full of ANSI color codes, like MUD logs, stuff run through syntax highlighters, colorgcc, colordiff, ccze, loco, etc 🌈 and it turns all of that into plain ASCII text ✨

it works as a filter 🫶 it reads from stdin, strips out every single ANSI code, and sends the clean result to stdout. no cap, it's giving main character energy 💜

🔥 CAVEATS

bestie, listen up 😭 all ANSI codes get ignored, and that includes all the cursor positioning ones too 💀 sometimes that's exactly what you want, and sometimes it really, really isn't 🙈

🎀 SEE ALSO

obsessed with these too 😍 ansi2html(1), ttyrec2ansi(1), pipetty(1).

okay that's the whole page, iconic 💅 this sign-off is from the General Commands Manual page for ansi2txt(1), dated 2002-09-02 🍓 stay hydrated and keep your logs clean, bestie 🌸🫶

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