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First off, have you tried pre-pending TERM=dumb to your command string. That *should* remove all the control chars from the command output e.g.
Terminal
[k5054@localhost ~]$ TERM=vt100 infocmp
#       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/v/vt100
vt100|vt100-am|DEC VT100 (w/advanced video),
        am, mc5i, msgr, xenl, xon,
        cols#80, it#8, lines#24, vt#3,
        acsc=``aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
        bel=^G, blink=\E[5m$<2>, bold=\E[1m$<2>,
        clear=\E[H\E[J$<50>, cr=\r, csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr,
        cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H, cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=\n,
        cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C$<2>,
        cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH$<5>, cuu=\E[%p1%dA,
        cuu1=\E[A$<2>, ed=\E[J$<50>, el=\E[K$<3>, el1=\E[1K$<3>,
        enacs=\E(B\E)0, home=\E[H, ht=^I, hts=\EH, ind=\n, ka1=\EOq,
        ka3=\EOs, kb2=\EOr, kbs=^H, kc1=\EOp, kc3=\EOn, kcub1=\EOD,
        kcud1=\EOB, kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA, kent=\EOM, kf0=\EOy,
        kf1=\EOP, kf10=\EOx, kf2=\EOQ, kf3=\EOR, kf4=\EOS, kf5=\EOt,
        kf6=\EOu, kf7=\EOv, kf8=\EOl, kf9=\EOw, lf1=pf1, lf2=pf2,
        lf3=pf3, lf4=pf4, mc0=\E[0i, mc4=\E[4i, mc5=\E[5i, rc=\E8,
        rev=\E[7m$<2>, ri=\EM$<5>, rmacs=^O, rmam=\E[?7l,
        rmkx=\E[?1l\E>, rmso=\E[m$<2>, rmul=\E[m$<2>,
        rs2=\E<\E>\E[?3;4;5l\E[?7;8h\E[r, sc=\E7,
        sgr=\E[0%?%p1%p6%|%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;$<2>,
        sgr0=\E[m\017$<2>, smacs=^N, smam=\E[?7h, smkx=\E[?1h\E=,
        smso=\E[7m$<2>, smul=\E[4m$<2>, tbc=\E[3g,

[k5054@localhost ~]$ TERM=dumb infocmp
#       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/d/dumb
dumb|80-column dumb tty,
        am,
        cols#80,
        bel=^G, cr=\r, cud1=\n, ind=\n,
[k5054@localhost ~]$ 
In general you can set any environment variable this way, so you might do something like
Shell
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/k5054/lib  DEBUG=1 ./foo
Which would add LD_LIBRARY_PATH and DEBUG variables to the environment, but only for the duration of the given command.

But on to your problem. Assuming you've managed to remove your control characters, what it looks like you want to do is to match any line that does not have an option to it. Based on what you have here, you could match on any line that does not contain either a '[' (i.e. a required argumetn) or a '<' (i.e. an optional argument). So the regex for that would be [^<\[]. Note we need to escape the opening square bracket, otherwise its treated as special character, and that means the regex won't compile.
C++
<h1>include <regex></h1>

regex admin_cmds{"^.+[\\[<].+$"}; // note we need two \\ for C++
if ( ! regex_match(text, admin_cmds ) {
    // text does not contain a '<' or a '['
    // do stuff
}
You could probably pull out the actual strings for the command and the options etc if you use subgroupings, (patter), but I'll leave that as an exercise for you and the documentation: [std::regex_match - cppreference.com](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/regex/regex_match)
Keep Calm and Carry On

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