Return to Answer

# The "sed -r" trick does not work on every Linux, I still dunno why:
DECOLORIZE='eval sed "s,${END}\[[0-9;]*[m|K],,g"'

=> howto use:

<commands that type colored output> | ${DECOLORIZE}

tested on:

• AIX 5.x / 6.1 / 7.1
• Linux Mandrake / Mandriva / SLES / Fedora
• SunOS

# The "sed -r" trick does not work on every Linux, I still dunno why:
DECOLORIZE='eval sed "s,${END}\[[0-9;]*[m|K],,g"'

How to use

<commands that type colored output> | ${DECOLORIZE}

Tested on:

• AIX 5.x / 6.1 / 7.1
• Linux Mandrake / Mandriva / SLES / Fedora
• SunOS

# The "sed -r" trick does not work on every Linux, I still dunno why:
DECOLORIZE='eval sed "s,${END}\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z],,g"'

=> howto use:

<commands that type colored output> | ${DECOLORIZE}

tested on:

• AIX 5.x / 6.1 / 7.1
• Linux Mandrake / Mandriva / SLES / Fedora
• SunOS

# The "sed -r" trick does not work on every Linux, I still dunno why:
DECOLORIZE='eval sed "s,${END}\[[0-9;]*[m|K],,g"'

=> howto use:

<commands that type colored output> | ${DECOLORIZE}

tested on:

• AIX 5.x / 6.1 / 7.1
• Linux Mandrake / Mandriva / SLES / Fedora
• SunOS

if [ "$(uname -s)" == "SunOS" ]; then
  END=$(printf '\033[0m')
  DECOLORIZE='eval sed "s,${END}\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z],,g"'
else
  DECOLORIZE='eval sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,3})*?)?[m|K]//g"'
fi

=> howto use:

<commands that type colored output> | ${DECOLORIZE}

tested on:

• AIX 5.x / 6.1 / 7.1
• Linux Mandrake / Mandriva / SLES / Fedora
• SunOS

# The "sed -r" trick does not work on every Linux, I still dunno why:
DECOLORIZE='eval sed "s,${END}\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z],,g"'

=> howto use:

<commands that type colored output> | ${DECOLORIZE}

tested on:

• AIX 5.x / 6.1 / 7.1
• Linux Mandrake / Mandriva / SLES / Fedora
• SunOS