linux shell output to html

Question

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 ... ( somethi

Answer 1

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{ 
        
        
        #{ansi_escape(string)}
        
    } 
end