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Fix Terminal Output

Clean up broken line breaks from text copied out of a terminal or AI agent — rejoin wrapped lines, strip color codes, and keep paragraphs, lists and code intact.

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About the Fix Terminal Output

When you copy output from a terminal — say a long answer from an AI agent — the text arrives chopped into short lines because the terminal hard-wrapped it to fit the window. Paste it here and Fix Terminal Output rejoins those wrapped lines back into clean paragraphs, while keeping real line breaks like blank lines, bullet lists, numbered steps and code blocks intact. It also strips leftover ANSI color codes and tidies up stray spaces. Everything runs in your browser, so even private logs or confidential output never leave your device.

Fix Terminal Output features

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    Smart line-break repair

    Detects the terminal's wrap width and merges only the lines that were broken mid-sentence, so wrapped paragraphs become single clean lines while intentional breaks — blank lines, list items and indented code — are preserved.

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    Strips color codes and clutter

    Removes ANSI escape sequences (the leftover color and style codes that sometimes tag along), trims trailing spaces, and collapses repeated blank lines so the result is ready to paste anywhere.

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    Two modes, one click

    Use Smart reflow to keep document structure, or switch to Single paragraph to flatten everything into one continuous block. Copy the cleaned text with a single tap.

Fix Terminal Output FAQ

Why does text copied from a terminal have weird line breaks?
Terminals hard-wrap long lines to fit the window width, inserting a real newline at each wrap point. When you copy and paste that text elsewhere, those newlines stay in the middle of sentences. This tool detects and removes the wrap-induced breaks while keeping the breaks you actually want.
Will it keep my bullet lists and code blocks?
Yes. Smart reflow recognises bullet and numbered lists, indented code, fenced code blocks (```), tables and blank-line paragraph breaks, and leaves their structure untouched — it only rejoins lines that were wrapped mid-paragraph.
What are ANSI color codes and why remove them?
ANSI codes are invisible escape sequences terminals use to color text. Sometimes they get copied along with the text and show up as garbage like "[32m". The Remove color codes option strips them out so you get clean plain text.
How do I just remove all line breaks?
Switch the mode to Single paragraph. That joins every line into one continuous block of text, which is handy when you want to paste a quote into a single field or message.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. The whole tool runs locally in your browser. Your pasted text is never sent to a server, logged or stored, so it's safe to clean up private logs and confidential output.

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