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I'm redirecting console output to a file, and getting [?25h and [?25l mixed in with my regular output. I've looked online and apparently they are the sequence characters for cnorm and civis, whatever those are. Is there any way to suppress these in the output?

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One thing you might try is to set the TERM environment variable to something that doesn't support those features, for example with a Bash command like this:

env TERM=dumb yourcmd > yourfile

(Where yourcmd is the program whose output you'd like to redirect to output file yourfile)

For other shells, you might have to do something more like

setenv TERM dumb
yourcmd > yourfile

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I ended up piping through sed. Jim's info is still very helpful, though. I used this command:

sed 's/\[?25[hl]//'

Incidentally, it catches [?25h and [?25l, but not when they're in succession ([?25h[?25l). Any suggestions for that?