Is there any easy way to convert bash output to HTML? For example, if I have some colorized output in bash (something like htop), how can I convert it to HTML, with corresponding stylings/tags/css/etc.
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1What would the conversion results look like? There is no recognizable structure here that could be converted into HTML tags. What exactly are you trying to achieve?Pekka– Pekka2010-01-09 12:08:03 +00:00Commented Jan 9, 2010 at 12:08
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Your data seems to be full of ANSI control sequences. Is that intentional?anon– anon2010-01-09 12:09:48 +00:00Commented Jan 9, 2010 at 12:09
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2Related: stackoverflow.com/questions/245121/…Tobu– Tobu2010-01-09 12:20:54 +00:00Commented Jan 9, 2010 at 12:20
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If you are using Konsole terminal emulator you can File -> Save Output As... then choose File type: HTML document, to save everything to HTMLAlmir– Almir2023-01-24 13:53:11 +00:00Commented Jan 24, 2023 at 13:53
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There's ansifilter plus some tools like highlight will produce colorized html from plain text such as source files.
Both available here.
answered Jan 9, 2010 at 12:50
Dennis Williamson
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Michel Gokan Khan
This is exactly what I want ... ansifilter -i file -H -o file.html
As suggested in @eli's answer, you can use script to capture the colored output to a file.
You can then convert the output to HTML with aha, the "Ansi HTML Adapter", which should be available in your distribution's repositories: apt install aha or yum install aha for Debian-based or Redhat-based distributions.
If you want to capture only a single command, use the -c option:
script -c "grep --color ..."
This will save the output to a file named typescript in your current directory.
To save to a different file, add the file name at the end:
script -c "grep --color ..." my_grep_colored_output
See man script for other options.
To capture several commands from an interactive session, just start script without a command, and enter Ctrl-d to exit script when done.
To just view the file in color, use less -R.
To convert it to HTML with aha :
aha -s -f typescript > output.html
or
aha -s < typescript > output.html
The -s option makes it write a style sheet in the html header instead of using inline styles through the file. That makes it easier to change colors if some background/foreground combinations turn out hard to read in a browser.
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artfulrobot
aha did the trick for me, and was available in the debian repositories, thanks!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
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nes1983
This probably still needs HTML escaping.
1.) check that ansifilter and script programs are installed
2.) script -c 'ansible-playbook -i /tmp/or/some /tmp/other/command.yml' -O /tmp/myTypescriptOutput.file
(script writes the output of a command to a file in typescript notation)
3.) convert to html, e.g. to view with your browser:
ansifilter -i /tmp/myTypescriptOutput.file -H -o output.html
convert to rtf, e.g. to view with libreoffice or word
ansifilter -i /tmp/myTypescriptOutput.file -R -o output.rtf
see man ansifilter for other options (latex, tex, svg, pangot, txt, ...)
(additional, if highlight is installed:
highlight /tmp/myTypescriptOutput.file --force
... this will print the saved-shell output in color, like if it was executed at first time)
