From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:56:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060302155601.dd1bee7c.hilse@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603021449.51145.bo.andresen@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:49:49 +0100 Bo Andresen <bo.andresen@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I wish to be able to run a program (eix-sync/diff-eix) in cron that
> prints colors (with use of --force-color) and then send that colored
> output as a mail. In order to get colors in a mail a have to use
> html. If there exist a program that is capable of converting escape
> sequences used for formatting and coloring an xterm to html I would
> love to know about it.
I'd say, the Perl module HTML::FromANSI should do what you want
(available from cpan). It brings a script, ansi2html, that provides
access from the command line. Note that you might have to play with the
TERM environment variable.
-hwh
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-02 13:49 [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences Bo Andresen
2006-03-02 14:01 ` Bo Andresen
2006-03-02 14:11 ` Jason Stubbs
2006-03-02 14:56 ` Hans-Werner Hilse [this message]
2006-03-02 15:43 ` Bo Andresen
2006-03-02 15:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2006-03-02 15:42 ` Bo Andresen
2006-03-02 17:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Bo Andresen
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