Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Terminal - Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,3}((;[0-9]{1,3})*)?)?[m|K]//g

Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Removes ANSI color and end of line codes to the [{attr1};...;{attrn}m format.

Alternatives

sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,3}((;[0-9]{1,3})*)?)?[m|K]//g

Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Removes ANSI color and end of line codes to the [{attr1};...;{attrn}m format.

sed -r "s:\x1B\[[0-9;]*[mK]::g"'

cat input.txt | sed 's/\\\033[^a-zA-Z]*.//g'

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