ansi-strip

Lightning-fast CLI tool to remove ANSI escape codes and color sequences from text streams and files

Features

• Strip all ANSI color codes (foreground and background)
• Remove cursor movement and positioning sequences
• Remove text formatting codes (bold, italic, underline, etc.)
• Process stdin for pipeline integration (cat file.log | ansi-strip)
• Process single or multiple files with glob patterns
• Preserve original text content and whitespace exactly
• Write cleaned output to stdout or specified file
• Optional verbose mode showing what was stripped
• Handle malformed or incomplete ANSI sequences gracefully
• Optimized for processing large log files (GB+) efficiently

How to Use

Use this project when you need to:

• Quickly solve problems related to ansi-strip
• Integrate rust functionality into your workflow
• Learn how rust handles common patterns

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/KurtWeston/ansi-strip.git
cd ansi-strip

# Install dependencies
cargo build

Usage

cargo run

Built With

• rust

Dependencies

• clap
• regex
• lazy_static

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.