bleach

bleach is a command-line utility designed to remove ANSI color codes and other escape sequences from files. It provides an easy way to clean up text files that contain unwanted formatting codes, especially useful for logs or output files generated from scripts and programs.

Installation

cargo install --git https://github.com/kojix2/bleach

Usage

bleach [options] [file]

Options

• -h, --help: Display the help menu.
• -i, --in-place: Edit the file in-place, saving the result to the same file.
• -b, --backup: Create a backup of the original file when using the -i option. The backup file is saved with the .bak extension.
• -c, --clean-types [types]: Specify the types of ANSI sequences to remove: color, movement, all. Defaults to all if not specified.

Examples

• Directly edit a file and remove color codes, creating a backup:

bleach -i -b file.txt

• Remove specific types of ANSI sequences from a file:

bleach -i -c color,movement file.txt

Contributing

Contributions to bleach are welcome! Please feel free to submit pull requests or open issues to suggest improvements or report bugs.

License

This tool was created making full use of ChatGPT and Copilot.

MIT