How to remove the ESC characters from Notepad++

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How to remove the ESC characters in black background from Notepad++ v6.7.3

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's about a Windows application — roaima, May 26 '17 at 15:23

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:33

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What should be removed is not simply the ASCII escape character, but the entire escape sequence, which terminates the the "m".

In Notepad++, you can substitute regular expressions. Using an answer by @progm as a starting point, this expression will search for escape sequences for colors:

\x1b\[[0-9;]*m

Tick off Search Mode = Regular expression, and click Find Next.

Further reading:

Notepad++, How to remove all non ascii characters with regex?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:33

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answered Mar 24 '16 at 08:22

Thomas Dickey

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I additionally needed to search for `\033\(B` (the "font reset" command for color codes) – Oliver Nov 09 '18 at 20:24
Magical, thank you – Dusty Boshoff Oct 26 '22 at 15:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '15 at 21:26

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To delete the ASCII ESC character use:

tr -d '\033' <infile >outfile

answered Apr 08 '15 at 21:26

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How to remove the ESC characters from Notepad++

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