is there any way to convert bash output to html ? for example if I had some colorized output in bash ( something like htop ), how can I convert it to html tags ... ( something like this: <p style="color: red">some text</p>)
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A:
Without any pretty-printing, the simplest thing you can always do is to escape everything that needs escaping, and wrap a basic HTML shell around (the following should be valid minimal HTML5). For example, get a hold of fastesc: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/fastesc/, and that wrap it into an HTML shell.
If you want to preserve the ANSI magic, then you need to convert that to HTML, perhaps with http://ansi-sys.rubyforge.org/
And then do something like this, depending on your needs:
require 'ansisys'
def ansi_escape(string)
terminal = AnsiSys::Terminal.new
terminal.echo(string)
terminal.render
end
def to_html(string)
%Q{ <!DOCTYPE html>
<title>Converted to html</title>
<pre>
#{ansi_escape(string)}
</pre>
}
end
nes1983
2010-01-09 12:21:09
+1 This is my answer too ...
linker
2010-01-12 09:48:12
+3
A:
There's ansifilter plus some tools like highlight will produce colorized html from plain text such as source files.
Both available here.
Dennis Williamson
2010-01-09 12:50:26