Possible Duplicate:Removing control chars (including console codes / colours) from script output If we redirect output to file in this pattern top >> somefile.txt, we get lot of garbage value in the output. But for top there is batch (top -b -n1 >> somefile.txt) option where the file output is as desired. In case of programs like nethogs there is no such options. Is there is good way to output in such case. 
How can i redirect the output to a file when the program is build with ncurses library
files;io redirection;top;ncurses