sansi(1) General Commands sansi(1)NAMEsansi-- StripANSI; strip ANSI escape sequences/characters from text
files
SYNTAXsansi < ANSIfied_textfile > unANSIfied_textfile
Strips ANSI from ANSIfied_textfile. Where ANSIfied_textfile is
the name of the textfile containing ANSI, and unANSI‐
fied_textfile is a filehandle you've chosen for it's output
(sansi redirects the filtered output to the filename you've cho‐
sen).
DESCRIPTIONsansi was written to strip the ANSI control sequences in files, or out‐
put, often, but not limited to those generated by compilers. I found it
difficult to visually grope/grep the output of script(1) sessions.
Especially with the advent of clang. While it's nice to replay the
script(1) sessions to view the highlighted messages. It's near impossi‐
ble to read it inline in your favorite pager, or text editor; Enter
sansi.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
John Marino
It probably would have never occurred to me to release this,
except that I thought it might help him, and the other commit‐
ters. I hoped it might help him after all the [unintentional]
grief I've caused him. Thanks for your patience, John!
OPTIONS
<ANSIfied_textfile> <Input file>
File name with embedded ANSI sequences
<unANSIfied_textfile> <Output file>
File name Stripped of ANSI sequences.
FILES
/usr/local/sbin/sansi
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
None at this time.
EXAMPLES
To strip the ANSI sequences from the file MakeOutput, saving the
results to CleanOutput:
sansi <MakeOutput> CleanOutput
BUGS
Doubtful. But who knows?
AUTHORS
Chris Hutchinson <portmaster AT bsdforge.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2014, Chris Hutchinson, taint, portmaster
This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself. Or under the BSD2CLAUSE license,
at your choice.
SEE ALSOSEE ALSO
The sansi command first appeared in 2014, when it was determined that
Eye Candy isn't always sweet.
portmaster 1.0.1 sansi(1)
