Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:08:55 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Command to Make "Printable" Text Message-ID: <20010119010855.G66998@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>
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My mind is going. I know I figured out how to do this in a clever way once before, but it is not coming to me now. I have a file that was, say, generated by using script(1). There is user interaction recorded and knowing users, there are things like backspaces, arrow keys, tabs for auto-completetion, etc. in the recorded input. How do I convert this file into one that just contains the characters that show up when the file is printed to the screen? That is, if I do a, $ cat script.txt This is clean output. It looks good, but if I were to see what is really there, it looks like, $ cat -v script.txt This is not^H^[[K^H^[[K^H^[[Kclean output.^M^M However, I want to create a file that just contains what "looks like" the final output in the first example. If I do, $ cat script.txt > newscript.txt All of the non-printed characters go. I know there is a command that will do this, 'cause I have done it, but can't remember. Oh, and anyone thinking of saying something about cut-n-paste... Don't even. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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