Hey 244an, thanks for the reply...
Thanks for the insight..!

Sorry I'm not exactly sure what your asking?
Are you saying that I "shouldn't" be able to remove these character sequences with the REGEX,
because "^[" is NOT literally a "^" or a "[", but "literally" an "ESC"...?

If that's what your saying, then I'm not sure why it would be working then..? Maybe it's the way I'm
writing the output to the file...


EDIT:
Ok... I see what your saying now. I just checked the output file in VI and you were right about the "^[", if
I scroll through the file it skips over the "^[" as if it were one character. I see what you mean by it being
weird that it actually works.!?

Maybe it has something to do with the "cat -v" command. The "-v" or aka "--show-nonprinting" will use ^
and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB. I'm assuming this probably is the reason why it's working..?

Here is my code for reading the file and removing those sequences:

Code:

EXPECT_OUTPUT="/path/to/output/file.txt"

IFS='
'
### If the output file exists, then read in the Output file and split it line-by-line...
if [ -e $EXPECT_OUTPUT ]
 then
    TEMP_Lines=( $(cat -v "$EXPECT_OUTPUT" | sed 's/\^\[\[[0-9]m//g') )
fi

Now from the command line if I run "cat myOutputFile.txt" I get:
Then running "cat -v myOutputFile.txt":
Soo I'm not exactly sure why it's working, but I just know i'm glad it does lol...
But anyway thanks again for your reply...


Thanks Again,
Matt