Haven't looked at the cheat sheets but... If you just want something readable, a couple of quick and dirty ways are: col -bx < typescript|less strings

Haven't looked at the cheat sheets but... If you just want something readable, a couple of quick and dirty ways are: col -bx < typescript|less strings typescript |less You can further clean things up by deleting unwanted lines or characters using sed. strings typescript|sed '1d;/deleteme/d;s/deleteme//g'|less There's also an old utility called ttyrec/ttyplay you might like.