diff --git a/test/ipfs-test-lib.sh b/test/ipfs-test-lib.sh
index c2e804a2b..fc856df47 100644
--- a/test/ipfs-test-lib.sh
+++ b/test/ipfs-test-lib.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Generic test functions for go-ipfs
 
+ansi_strip() {
+    sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g'
+}
+
 # Quote arguments for sh eval
 shellquote() {
 	_space=''
@@ -48,7 +52,7 @@ test_path_cmp() {
 
 # This takes a Dockerfile, and a build context directory
 docker_build() {
-    docker build --rm -f "$1" "$2"
+    docker build --rm -f "$1" "$2" | ansi_strip
 }
 
 # This takes an image as argument and writes a docker ID on stdout