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:
term_cdiff
: colors a diff patchterm_colortab
: 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_decolor
: decolors any text file that was colored with ANSI escape sequencesterm_mandel
: displays the mandelbrot set in the terminalterm_plasma
: draws a plasma effect on the console, possibly animated and refreshed every-n seconds
.term_snow
: displays falling snow in the terminal using ANSI movement sequences.
Additionally the file examples/example.rb in the source/gem-distribution shows how this library can be used.
Florian Frank mailto:flori@ping.de
This software is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.