A library to convert ANSI escapes (terminal formatting/color codes) to HTML [closed]

Question

I'm looking for a code library that converts ANSI escape sequences into HTML color, via plain tags or CSS. For example, something that would convert this:

ESC[00mESC[01;34mbinESC[00m ESC[01;34mcodeESC[00m ESC[01;31mdropbox-lnx.x86-0.6.404.tar.gzESC[00m ESC[00mfooESC[00m

Into this:

<span style="color:blue">bin</span> <span style="color:blue">code</span> <span style="color:red">dropbox-lnx.x86-0.6.404.tar.gz</span> foo 

Converting breaks into <br/> isn't necessary, it's just the escape codes that I don't know. I could hack it together myself, but I'd probably miss something important like underlines or mess up how background colors work. I'd rather just sit on top of someone else's code.

Does such a tool (command line linux) or library (perl, python, or ruby preferably) exist?

Answer 1

aha is a C-language program, available in an Ubuntu package, at http://ziz.delphigl.com/tool_aha.php or on github https://github.com/theZiz/aha, that takes an input with terminal colors by pipe or file and puts a (w3c conform) HTML-File in stdout. Example:

ls --color=always | aha > ls-output.htm 

or

ls --color=always | aha --black > ls-output.htm 

for a terminal-like look with black background.

Compile it by "make" and put it where ever you want.

It would be great to get Feedback. ;-)