ansi-color-codec

Encode arbitrary byte sequences with ANSI background colors.

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Usage

You can use the program as a library or as a command line utility.

Library

The library provides a trait ColorCodec<T> that allows arbitrary byte iterators (Iterator<Item = u8>) to encode their bytes as ANSI background color codes. Therefor the trait provides the functions ansi_color_encode() and ansi_color_decode().

Command line utility

You can encode bytes or decode color codes by passing them to ansi-color-codec's STDIN:

shell $ echo "I use Arch btw" | ansi-color-codec $ echo "I use Arch btw" | ansi-color-codec | ansi-color-codec -d

For more options, see ansi-color-codec -h.