diff --git a/bin/deansi b/bin/deansi
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Remove ANSI escape sequences and ^M carriage return characters
+
+perl -pe 's/\e\[[0-9;]*[mGKHF]//g; s/\r//g'
+