Ubuntu Manpage: aha — Convert ANSI escape sequences to HTML

NAME

     aha — Convert ANSI escape sequences to HTML

SYNOPSIS

     aha [-bhlnprsvwx] [-c file] [-f file] [-i X] [-L LANG] [-t TITLE] [-y STYLE]

DESCRIPTION

aha reads ECMA-48 SGR-colored text from the standard input, converts it to colored HTML and
writes it to the standard output. The options are as follows:

-b, --black
Style HTML output to use a black background with white text.

-c file, --css file
Adds the given css file to the output. In fact just adds <link rel="stylesheet"
href=" file " /> to the header.

-f file
Read from file instead of from the standard input.

-h, --help, -?
Print help for aha to the standard output.

-i X, --iso X
Use the ISO-8859-X character encoding instead of UTF-8 for the output, where X is a
number from 1-16.

-l, --line-fix
Use a fix for inputs using control sequences to change the cursor position. This is
a hot fix, thus it may not work with every program.

-L LANG, --lang LANG
Uses the ISO-639-1 code LANG for the language.

-n, --no-header
Do not enclose HTML output in <html>, <head> and <body> tags.

-p, --pink
Style HTML output to use a pink background.

-r, --ignore-cr
Ignore all carriage-returns (ASCII sign 13, \r) which may lead to double new lines
in html.

-s, --stylesheet
Use a stylesheet instead of inline styles.

-t TITLE, --title TITLE
Set the HTML document title to TITLE instead of "stdin" or the filename.

-v, --version
Print version number of aha to the standard output and exit.

-w, --word-wrap
Wrap long lines in the html output. Works with CSS3 supporting browsers and many
older ones.

-x, --no-xml
Don't use doctype xml but html (may useful for old browsers like IE)

-y STYLE, --style STYLE
Sets the style used in the <body> element to STYLE after styles set by other
parameters.

EXAMPLES

     Create an HTML file with a black background, a custom title and a larger font-size using
     aha's help:

           $ aha -h | aha -b -t 'the awesome aha help' -y 'font-size:1.875em' > aha-help.html

     Create an HTML file with a white background using the output of diff(1):

           $ diff -u --color=always oldfile.c newfile.c | aha > diff.html

     Create an HTML file with a black background from the output of htop(1).  You have to use
     option -l due the other new-line-commands htop uses:

           $ echo q | htop | aha -b -l > htop.html

     Create an HTML file from the output of this man page.  man(1) uses bold and underline
     formatting from nroff(1), which ul(1) converts to SGR:

           $ MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 COLUMNS=80 man aha | ul | aha > man-aha.html

AUTHORS

     The aha utility is maintained by Alexander Matthes ‘Ziz’ <ziz@mailbox.org>.

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