Turn off color in bash for logs

Question

I am running Ansible on multiple machines and redirecting the output to a file, say log-$(date), which is mailed to me every day. The output file has multiple text colors, how to turn them off? Sendmail sends output which contains [0;32m, [0;33m, [0;36m, etc.

Is there an option in sendmail? Or in Ansible settings? (I don't want to turn it off in Ansible.)

I am using ansible. Tail the log and use sendmail to send it. — Sandjaie Ravi, Dec 16 '15 at 18:03

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '15 at 17:57

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Ask the program that produces those colors to stop, or remove those colors yourself:

sed "s,\x1B\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z],,g"

^I have this in an executable named uncolor so that I can do:

aProgramThatWontStopColoring | uncolor

answered Dec 16 '15 at 17:57

Petr Skocik

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It worked. Great. `tail -32 log-2015-12-16_22-53 | sed "s,\x1B\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z],,g" | sendmail "[email protected]"` – Sandjaie Ravi Dec 16 '15 at 18:06

Turn off color in bash for logs

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