This library can be used to color/decolor strings using ANSI escape sequences.
Use rubygems to install the gem:
# gem install term-ansicolor
The homepage of this library is located at
The following executables are provided with Term::ANSIColor:
cdiff
: colors a diff patchdecolor
: decolors any text file that was colored with ANSI escape sequencescolortab
: Displays a table of the 256 terminal colors with their indices and nearest html equivalents.term_display
: displays a ppm3 or ppm6 image file in the terminal. If the netpbm programs are installed it can handle a lot of other image file formats.term_mandel
: displays the mandelbrot set in the terminal
Additionally the file examples/example.rb in the source/gem-distribution shows how this library can be used.
Florian Frank mailto:[email protected]
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