I just use a bash alias for striping colors:
alias stripcolors=' sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[mGK]//g"' alias stripcolors=' sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[mGK]//g"'No comments yet.