A library to convert ANSI escapes (terminal formatting/color codes) to HTML

Question

I'm looking for a code library that converts ANSI escape sequences into HTML color, via plain tags or CSS. For example, something that would convert this:

ESC[00mESC[01;34mbinESC[00m
ESC[01;34mcodeESC[00m
ESC[01;31mdropbox-lnx.x86-0.6.404.tar.gzESC[00m
ESC[00mfooESC[00m

Into this:

<span style="color:blue">bin</span>
<span style="color:blue">code</span>
<span style="color:red">dropbox-lnx.x86-0.6.404.tar.gz</span>
foo

Converting breaks into <br/> isn't necessary, it's just the escape codes that I don't know. I could hack it together myself, but I'd probably miss something important like underlines or mess up how background colors work. I'd rather just sit on top of someone else's code.

Does such a tool (command line linux) or library (perl, python, or ruby preferably) exist?

Answer 1

There seems to be an HTML::FromANSI Perl module.

Answer 2

"aha" is a C-written Program, that takes an input with terminal colors by pipe or file and puts a (w3c conform) HTML-File in stdout. Example:

ls --color=always | aha > ls-output.htm

or

ls --color=always | aha --black > ls-output.htm

for a terminal-like look with black background.

The site (german) http:// ziz.delphigl.com/tool_aha.php

Direct Download: http://ziz.delphigl.com/data/aha-src.tar.lzma

Compile it by "make" and put it where ever you want.

It would be great to get Feedback. ;-)

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