Clean Console Log Output

To remove colour codes and redraw characters from console to make console logs more readable.


#!/usr/bin/env perl
while (<>) {
s/ \e[ #%()*+\-.\/]. |
(?:\e\[|\x9b) [ -?]* [@-~] | # CSI ... Cmd
(?:\e\]|\x9d) .*? (?:\e\\|[\a\x9c]) | # OSC ... (ST|BEL)
(?:\e[P^_]|[\x90\x9e\x9f]) .*? (?:\e\\|\x9c) | # (DCS|PM|APC) ... ST
\e.|[\x80-\x9f] //xg;
print;
}


Usage:

less /path/to/console.log | cleanLog | less