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inxi pipe output to text file without control characters

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How to pipe the output of inxi to a text file, without control characters ?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

inxi -b > ~/Desktop/System\ Information.txt

Like that ?

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Marius (marius-nelson-nz) said : 		#2

Thank you Andrew
The -b option sets the display to basic only, no data is written to a file.
I tried the > pipe which writes to a file but is full of control characters.
Any other suggestions are welcome.
Thank you

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Marius (marius-nelson-nz) said : 		#3

Found out that the Terminal can copy a selection to the clipboard. Then paste into text editor.
Good enough work-around.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

You can also pipe to xclip and the output of any command can be put directly onto the clipboard. Dead easy

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Harald Hope (lontact) said : 		#5

Legacy inxi, 2.x, did not remove colors when piped or redirected, inxi 3.x does. For legacy inxi, you use -c0 to remove colors.