I connect via ssh to server and use the ffprobe command to get specific data about video and audio streams from a media file on putty window, but in the result output there is a symbol clear-screen, ( Ctrl+L, ^L ), and clear terminal screen.
If redirect output to a file, and open in mcedit, it looks like this:
TAG:handler_name=^LVideoHardler
Running through xxd, the line looks like:
00000000: 5441 473a 6861 6e64 6c65 725f 6e61 6d65 TAG:handler_name
00000010: 3d0c 5669 6465 6f48 616e 646c 6572 0a =.VideoHandler.
Is there any way to escape or remove this character from the output? Or save the output to a file and remove it already from the file?
thx
^L, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII, is a form-feed (this can also be validated because the xxd output contains 0c, which in decimal is ASCII character 12). To remove it with tr, you'd use the ANSI C escape sequence, which is \f.
Thus:
ffprobe ... | tr -d '\f' >file
...should store content in your output file with the unwanted character removed.