I am working on VSCode 1.51 (at this point in time the most recent version), and while running terraform plan .. from the integrated PowerShell (5.1 on this workstation) I noticed that if I was redirecting the output to a text file, either via the operator (.. > .\a.txt) or via the Tee-Object (.. | Tee-Object -FilePath .\a.txt) the produced output file was mangled by ASCII escape sequences; specifically by Control Sequence Introducer (CSI) sequences, such as ESC[1m.
In the output files I have seen so far I observed only the following 6 sequences:
- ESC[0m
- ESC[1m
- ESC[4m
- ESC[31m
- ESC[32m
- ESC[33m
I am using Notepad++ 7.8.7 to read the files, how do I replace the above sequences with a single space character (' ')?
Update
Obviously, if it could be possible to remove the ASCII escape sequences from the terraform plan output it would be even better.
This is not a direct answer to your question as you asked it, but I just wanted to note that terraform plan has a -no-color option which will disable the control codes and just emit plain text at the source, avoiding the need to strip the codes out later.