I have an output file from a testing script (which I cannot alter), the output looks great in the terminal thanks to the encoding, which displays the output in nice colours. 

However when I vim the file, I get the following:

```
^[[1m0024^[[0m, ^[[36munknown.10^[[0m --> ^[[32mUNKNOWN^[[0m

```

I would rather the file contained:

```
0024, unknown.10 --> UNKNOWN

```

There are a couple of similar questions on stackover flow, but so far I have not found a solution that works for me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks! 

Additional info:

I don't want to conceal the colour characters, I would like to remove them from the file. 

The output goes into an evidence file, and then that file is pushed up to a GIT for the team to review. It is difficult to the GIT UI with those colour codes :(