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Commands tagged ansi

Terminal - Commands tagged ansi - 11 results

sed -r "s@\^\[{1,2}([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?(;[0-9])?(m|K){1,2})?@@g"

2012-11-29 18:42:32

User: malathion

Functions: sed

Tags: sed color colors ansi

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Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Catches some background colors missed by the highest rated alternative.

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alias colortest="python -c \"print('\n'.join([(' '.join([('\033[38;5;' + str((i + j)) + 'm' + str((i + j)).ljust(5) + '\033[0m') if i + j < 256 else '' for j in range(10)])) for i in range(0, 256, 10)]))\""

2012-10-26 07:43:06

User: Paaskehare

Functions: alias

Tags: python ansi python3 colortest

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ANSI 256 Color Test

Terminal Color tester using python, works with py2 and 3

colortest-python

2012-10-26 06:50:01

User: eikenberry

Tags: python test ansi python3 colortest

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ANSI Terminal Color Test using python

Pre-packaged python script that comes with Debian/Ubuntu.

centralized(){ L=`echo -n $*|wc -c`; echo -e "\x1b[$[ ($COLUMNS / 2) - ($L / 2) ]C$*"; }

2012-08-16 18:19:26

User: xenomuta

Functions: echo wc

Tags: echo ansi

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Output centralized text on command line

Echoes text horizontally centralized based on screen width

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open R,"curl -s http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Command-line-fu|xml2|"; while(<R>){ chomp; m(^/rss/channel/item/title=) and do{ s/^.*?=//; ($t,$d,$l)=($_,undef,undef) }; m(^/rss/channel/item/description=) and do{ s/^.*?=//; push @d,$_ }; m(^/rss/channel/item

2012-02-24 23:40:02

User: bandie91

Tags: perl color curl oneliner commandlinefu rss ansi html2text xml2

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interactive rss-based colorful commandline-fu reader perl oneliner (v0.1)

required packages: curl, xml2, html2text

command is truncated, see 'sample output'

cat input.txt | sed 's/\\\033[^a-zA-Z]*.//g'

2011-08-02 05:27:36

User: lingo

Functions: cat sed

Tags: sed ansi

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Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

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perl -mText::Highlight -E 'say Text::Highlight->new(ansi => 1)->highlight(Perl => do { local (@ARGV,$/) = shift; <> }) ' path/to/perl-file.pl

2011-07-12 04:55:12

User: dbr

Functions: perl

Tags: perl ansi syntax highlight

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Syntax Highlight your Perl code

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perl -MText::Highlight -E '$h=Text::Highlight->new(ansi=>1); my $text=do{local $/; open my $fh, "<", $ARGV[0]; <$fh>}; say $h->highlight("Perl", $text);' path/to/perl-file.pl

2011-01-31 05:52:43

User: doherty

Functions: perl

Tags: perl ansi syntax highlight

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Syntax Highlight your Perl code

This uses Text::Highlight to output the specified Perl file with syntax highlighting. A better alternative is my App::perlhl - find it on the CPAN: http://p3rl.org/App::perlhl

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for c in `seq 0 255`;do t=5;[[ $c -lt 108 ]]&&t=0;for i in `seq $t 5`;do echo -e "\e[0;48;$i;${c}m|| $i:$c `seq -s+0 $(($COLUMNS/2))|tr -d '[0-9]'`\e[0m";done;done

2009-11-03 09:12:13

User: AskApache

Functions: c++ echo

Tags: bash color terminal askapache colors ansi escape terminfo termcap

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Unbelievable Shell Colors, Shading, Backgrounds, Effects for Non-X

I've been using linux for almost a decade and only recently discovered that most terminals like putty, xterm, xfree86, vt100, etc., support hundreds of shades of colors, backgrounds and text/terminal effects.

This simply prints out a ton of them, the output is pretty amazing.

If you use non-x terminals all the time like I do, it can really be helpful to know how to tweak colors and terminal capabilities. Like:

echo $'\33[H\33[2J'

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sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,3}((;[0-9]{1,3})*)?)?[m|K]//g

2009-11-03 00:34:06

User: vaejovis

Functions: sed

Tags: color ascii colors ansi

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Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Removes ANSI color and end of line codes to the [{attr1};...;{attrn}m format.

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declare -ax CC; for i in `seq 0 7`;do ii=$(($i+7)); CC[$i]="\033[1;3${i}m"; CC[$ii]="\033[0;3${i}m"; done

2009-09-21 07:00:55

User: AskApache

Tags: bash color global loop function for array iterate colors ansi escape reset declare

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Adding Color Escape Codes to global CC array for use by echo -e

I was looking for the fastest way to create a bunch of ansi escapes for use in echo -e commands throughout a lot of my shell scripts. This is what I came up with, and I actually stick that loop command in a function and then just call that at the beginning of my scripts to not clutter the environment with these escape codes, which can wreck havok on my terminal when I'm dumping the environment. More of a cool way to store escape ansi codes in an array. You can echo them like:

echo -e "${CC[15]}This text is black on bright green background."

I usually just use with a function:

# setup_colors - Adds colors to array CC for global use

# 30 - Black, 31 - Red, 32 - Green, 33 - Yellow, 34 - Blue, 35 - Magenta, 36 - Blue/Green, 37 - White, 30/42 - Black on Green    '30\;42'

function setup_colors(){ declare -ax CC; for i in `seq 0 7`;do ii=$(($i+7));CC[$i]="\033[1;3${i}m";CC[$ii]="\033[0;3${i}m";done;CC[15]="\033[30;42m"; export R='\033[0;00m';export X="\033[1;37m"; };

export -f setup_colors

CC[15] has a background of bright green which is why it is separate. R resets everything, and X is my default font of bright white.

CC[15]="\033[30;42m"; R=$'\033[0;00m'; X=$'\033[1;37m'

Those are just my favorite colors that I often use in my scripts. You can test which colors by running

for i in $(seq 0 $((${#CC[@]} - 1))); do echo -e "${CC[$i]}[$i]\n$R"; done

See: http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html for more usage.