[SunHELP] removing patterns with control codes, ie colors

I was able to do it with 
show db | col -b | sed s/[0-7]m//g
I'm sure theres a better way but 
this works.  Thanks Patrick.

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Whelan [mailto:consultant0610 at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:34 AM
To: RMarkham at hafeleamericas.com
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] removing patterns with control codes, ie colors


Have you tried piping it through col with perhaps the -b option? Or maybe 
some other option.

= = = Original message = = =

I have output from a program that contains embedded ctrl codes for colors. I
am having trouble stripping these codes so as to have a plain text output
for transmission to my mobile cell.  Example: using ctrl-v ctrl-[ [ 7m and
ctrl-v ctrl-[ [ 0m appears as ^[7m AVAILABLE ^[0m on other devices other
than the terminal It is basically printing the word avaiable using white on
black colors. I tried sed s/^[[.m//g to remove all codes at once but sed
complains the command is garbled.  It will also complain if I dont use the
regexp "." Thanks for assistance in advance.
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