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Is there a way to read in and process control characters like ^M and only show the final output? For example, I have the following string:

track^Mfl^Ms

I would like to convert it to:

slack

How could I go about doing this?

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    col -b should help. Commented Jan 31, 2019 at 23:52

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It is already mentioned in the comments but it probably should be the answer:

col -b should help

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    Note that \r/^M is not the only control character/sequence it recognises. The BSD one (often the one also found on Linux-based systems) interprets the input as a Teletype Model 37 would (not like modern terminals would). In particular SPC does not erase, it moves the cursor forward one position, so abc\rA C would render as AbC, not A C. Commented Jun 17, 2020 at 17:36

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