StripColorCodes

When using libs like colors your shell is beautifull but if you store the result in a file, it's not so good :-/

$ vim myLog

20120413045946 ^[[34mdebug:  ^[[39m […n/my-service] Starting my-service on 0.0.0.0:8080 in dev mode·
20120413045946 ^[[34mdebug:  ^[[39m […n/my-service] my-service started.·

You have all those ugly codes ^[[34m everywhere in your logs.

STOP worring about this, use StripColorCodes !

$ npm install -g stripcolorcodes

You can use it with unix pipe:

$ cat /root/.forever/T9ZW.log | stripcolorcodes
20120413045946 debug:   […n/my-service] Starting my-service on 0.0.0.0:8080 in dev mode
20120413045946 debug:   […n/my-service] my-service started.

Or with a file:

$ stripcolorcodes /root/.forever/T9ZW.log
20120413045946 debug:   […n/my-service] Starting my-service on 0.0.0.0:8080 in dev mode
20120413045946 debug:   […n/my-service] my-service started.

Or programmatically:

var stripColorCodes = require('stripcolorcodes');

fs.readFile(file, function(err, data){
  if(err) return console.error(err);
  process.stdout.write(stripcolorcodes(data.toString()));
});

Enjoy !

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