I wrote a shell script some time back that stripped ansi color from piped output. Haven't needed it since, but can't be hard to make again. So probably we don't

I wrote a shell script some time back that stripped ansi color from piped output. Haven't needed it since, but can't be hard to make again. So probably we don't need this kind of quasi-standard. (what's up with all the non-IETF "standards" all over HN and GitHub? there is an open standards process for technology, people. is the problem that us old folks never taught the youngsters how to make them?)