Escape Color!
A command line tool that prints a string containing the escape sequence that produces ANSI effects and colors. It can also print the escaped string.
It is posible to escape a sequence, then print something else with other tool and the escaped effects will be aply to the output of that other tool, unless that tool manage its own effects.
I made escolor to make it easier to obtain ANSI color escape sequences. I don't intend escolor to be a morer
complex tool than that.
It is also an experiment in how to get a command line tool to capture options in the typical Linux tool style.
It may not be the most efficient approach, but it is one that fits in a few lines of code in a single script.
For that reason I don't use argparse, getopt or the more limited getopts. This allowed me to interpret the
order of the arguments to make sequential changes to the output, where a normal argument is affected only by the
previous options and not the following ones.
This repository provides a Bash version and a Python version. Both work exactly the same for all examples in the help message.
A string with consecutive backslashes will have different results depending on the version you choose, but any string can be printed with both by adding more or fewer backslashes.
escolor is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
escolor is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.