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Lapshin Dmitry
Lapshin Dmitry

Reputation: 1124

How to delete coloring sequences from string in bash?

How I should delete all color-controlling sequences (or even all unprintable sequences) from string in Bash?

For example, I have got a string with color swithcers:

a="\e[0;31m->\e0m"

If i will echo it like

echo -e "$a"

there will be printed two colored characters -> - the string i want to get without any color.

In my actual situation, I am getting colored string building in script, so I can't just hardcode the result as a constant and I don't want to double the size of script to build both colored and uncolored results.

If answer will delete all escape-sequences, not only coloring ones, it will be okay. String can contain Unicode.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 86

Answers (1)

ShellFish
ShellFish

Reputation: 4551

$ a="\e[0;31m->\e0m"
$ echo $a | sed 's/\\e[^m]*m//g'
->

Something like this?

Upvotes: 2

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