Weird characters in the log file.

asked 2015-06-16 06:04:49 -0500

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When I run roscore and redirect the logged output to a text file I can see weird characters:

 [ESC]]2;roscore[BEL]

where [ESC] and [BEL] are single characters within a small box (I could not add unicode to this question).

I suspect these codes come from colored ouput. How do I get rid of these characters?

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answered 2015-06-22 17:15:30 -0500

SR

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I could get rid of the first character with the following regulary expression (made for Python's re engine): '[^[:ascii:]].;'.

The second character could be removed by discarding all \a characters.

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answered 2015-06-16 07:47:35 -0500

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This has been answered before. See Unexpected heading and trailing symbols in logfile's string for example.

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Ok, Thanks. I will have a look at these suggestions.

SR ( 2015-06-16 17:18:59 -0500 )edit

The problem remains. Using TERM=dumb doesn't help in my case. Also I did not find a sed command yet to strip these characters away. The mentioned characters are hard to get rid off, the normal color codes are way easier.

SR ( 2015-06-17 17:10:45 -0500 )edit

Could be that the ones in the line you copy/pasted are actually hard coded and not actually suppressed in a dumb terminal. If you find the location in the sources then it might be an idea to open an issue against the repository to get that fixed.

gvdhoorn ( 2015-06-22 10:04:55 -0500 )edit

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