ansi2txt

Command-line tool that converts text containing ANSI control codes into plain ASCII text. It works as a filter, reading from stdin or a file, removing all ANSI codes, and sending the output to stdout.

This repo was inspired by kilobyte/colorized-logs.

Installation

APT (Ubuntu, Debian)

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1. If you don't have it already, install the ca-certificates package

   sudo apt install ca-certificates

2. Add gabe565 apt repository

   echo 'deb [trusted=yes] https://apt.gabe565.com /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gabe565.list
   

3. Update apt repositories

   sudo apt update

4. Install ansi2txt

   sudo apt install ansi2txt

RPM (CentOS, RHEL)

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1. If you don't have it already, install the ca-certificates package

   sudo dnf install ca-certificates

2. Add gabe565 rpm repository to /etc/yum.repos.d/gabe565.repo

   [gabe565]
   name=gabe565
   baseurl=https://rpm.gabe565.com
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=0

3. Install ansi2txt

   sudo dnf install ansi2txt

AUR (Arch Linux)

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Install ansi2txt-bin with your AUR helper of choice.

Homebrew (macOS, Linux)

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Install ansi2txt from gabe565/homebrew-tap:

brew install gabe565/tap/ansi2txt

Manual Installation

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1. Download and run the latest release binary for your system and architecture.
2. Extract the binary and place it in the desired directory.

Usage

If ansi2txt is run with no arguments, it will read data from stdin, filter control codes, and write to stdout. A filename argument can also be provided to filter the file's contents to stdout.

Examples

1. Read data from stdin:

   ls --color=always | ansi2txt

2. Read data from a file:

   ansi2txt example.txt