Expect Scripting - Remove Clear Screen

[RF101]

I have redirected the output from my telnet session to a text file.

The text file contains ANSI characters that I do not want, example:

Erase from cursor to end of screen \027[J or \027[0J




Is there a way to suppress these characters so that they do not show up in the output file?

 

[PinkeyNBrain]

What OS are you using and what method are you using to redirect the output?

 

[RF101]

I found a solution for this problem. I ended up using a sed regular expression to remove all of the special characters and create a new cleaned file.

RF

 

[PinkeyNBrain]

I was going to suggest sed if you were in the right OS. Should it come to it and/or as an alternate option, take a look at the man pages for the 'cat' command. I haven't worked with *nix OSs for a couple of years, but if memory serves there was a -v option that would cause otherwise non-printable characters to print as various ^I or the \027[J expressions you were seeing. These can be filtered off a little more visibly as well.