Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn off ansi (colour) codes in ... script output

[Mick]

On Friday 02 Jun 2017 19:13:25 R0b0t1 wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:12 PM, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Walter had posted a message about ANSI codes showing up in portage
> >> output.  I am getting the same when I run /usr/bin/script and examine
> >> the contents of the resultant file with a text editor; e.g. in Vim I
> >> get:
> >>
> >> ^[[0;32m~ ^[[35m$ ^[[0mtest^H^[[K^H^[[K^H^[[K^H^[[Kecho
> >> S^H^[[K|^H^[[K$term^M
> >>
> >> but when I use less I can see:
> >>
> >> ~ $ echo $TERM
> >>
> >> Is there a way of suppressing these characters in gedit, kwrite, vim,
> >> etc.?
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Mick
> >
> > The proper way to approach this is to disable coloring in the program
> > generating your output. If there is no flag for it, you can try
> > setting your terminal capabilities such that color is not supported
> > (e.g. TERM=xterm-old, possibly unsupported on BSDs). However for some
> > poorly written programs that may not work. Lastly, you can strip the
> > escape sequences from the output.
> >
> > See http://www.andre-simon.de/doku/ansifilter/en/ansifilter.php if you
> > are interested in the latter option. This seems the easiest to do if
> > you don't mind the extra step.
>
> Apologies - you should also check your terminal emulator's
> documentation to see if color escapes can be disabled as an
> alternative to setting TERM, but this is probably the worst of the
> three options.

Thank you, more than one thing to try out!  :-)
-- 
Regards,
Mick