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Capture a raw dump of lolcat colorized output (for a script or a command) that includes the ANSI escape sequences for the colors.
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The Need

  • You need a raw dump of lolcat colorized output that includes the ANSI escape sequences for the colors.
  • You need this dump saved to a file.

The Solution

Pipe your output through lolcat, use the --force flag and then redirect the output to a file.

Examples

  1. Capture a raw dump of the output of a bash script piped through lolcat to the file colors.txt

    • bash my-script.sh | lolcat --force > colors.txt

  2. Capture a raw dump of the output an echo command piped through lolcat to the file colors.txt

    • echo -n "foobarbaz" | lolcat --force > colors.txt

  3. Dial in lolcat output how you want it using the --seed option and then once you like what you see pipe it to a file

    1. echo -n "gitpod-laravel-starter UPDATER" | lolcat --spread 0.1 --seed 5141 --freq .0048
    2. echo -n "gitpod-laravel-starter UPDATER" | lolcat --spread 0.1 --seed 5141 --freq .0048 --force > colors.txt
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