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  • thanks to both answers. i felt i should make something as a good answer, although both give regexps, which i wanted to avoid. chose this one as it gives a reference for the format. Commented Jun 16, 2011 at 12:49
  • @andrew: My regexp is flexible enough that I expect it to work with pretty much any now-existing terminal, and probably with any tomorrow-existing terminal as well. I haven't tested it much, so there might be bugs, but the approach is sound as control sequences follow a few general patterns. Commented Jun 16, 2011 at 13:53
  • please provide how to use this script. does it require pipe input? or positional arguments? Commented Jan 5, 2018 at 17:14
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    @TrevorBoydSmith Either will work for input, and the output is always on standard output, like typical text utilities. Commented Jan 5, 2018 at 20:31
  • This mangles multibyte characters such as ☺ (\xe2 \x98 \xba). The [\x80-\x9f] clause strips the middle byte. Commented Jun 9, 2018 at 4:52