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log colorizer ANSI to HTML convering perl script

This Perl script is designed for converting ANSI-colored log-files to HTML format.

See Advantages & disadvantages section for comparison.

History

• 15 Oct 2002 - fix for --optimise options (compiled .exe-version NOT FIXED yet!)
• 26 Sep 2002 - Inintial release.

Download

Perl script (require Perl)
log_colorizer.pl, 3,962 bytes (tar.gz archive, 1,788 bytes)

Stanalone executable (does not require Perl)
log_colorizer.exe, 1,068,039 bytes (zip archive, 568,160 bytes)

Typical usage

prompt$ ./log_colorizer.pl < infile.log > outfile.html
prompt$ ./log_colorizer.pl --from infile.log --to outfile.html
prompt$ gunzip -c log-file.gz | ./log_colorizer.pl --title "My old logs"\
    --to outfile.html --charset koi8-r

Command-line options

prompt$ ./log_colorizer.pl --help
  --help, -h, -?        - this help screen
  --help-style          - show used CSS class names (to write your own one)
  --from, -f      - input ANSI file  (default: STDIN)
  --to, -t        - output HTML file (default: STDOUT)
  --optimise, -o        - optimise HTML file
  --title         - HTML page title  (default:"Colorized log")
  --codepage, -c  - set codepage for HTML file  (default: windows-1251)
  --style, -s     - file to get CSS (Cascade Style Sheet) from
			                            (default: built-in)

Advantages & disadvantages

There are some known analog scripts:

• ansi2html by Velinor [velinor _@_ mail.com]
• HTML::FromANSI-1.00 by autrijus _@_ autrijus.org from CPAN.org
• Amud_Html.exe by Sitn from Adamant MUD

log-colorizer support more command-line options for customising output html-file.