On Unix:

> script
Script started, file is typescript
> ls -ld /typo^H^H^H^Hetc 
drwxr-xr-x 117 root root 12288 2009-04-13 16:22 /etc
> exit
Script done, file is typescript
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and then perl -pe 's/\e([^\[\]]|\[.*?[a-zA-Z]|\].*?\a)//g' typescript

filters the escape codes, and prints this out as-is:

Script started on Tue 14 Apr 2009 10:48:10 AM PDT
> ls -ld /etc 
drwxr-xr-x 117 root root 12288 2009-04-13 16:22 /etc
> exit

Script done on Tue 14 Apr 2009 10:48:22 AM PDT
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