A script to obtain HTML document from the `ack` search result. (just a proof of concept)

ack_2_html.sh

#!/bin/sh

##############################
# ack_2_html (script example)
##############################
# Description: 
#     Perform an ack search then create a colorized HTML document.
# Usage:
#     ack_2_html.sh OUTPUTFILE_NAME PART_OF_FILEPATH PART_OF_TEXT
# Dependency:
#     expect, ansifilter, ack

target_dir=.

file=results/$1
file_query=$2
text_query=$3

mkdir -p results
find ${target_dir} | grep ${file_query} > ${file}.lst
unbuffer -p ack --files-from=${file}.lst ${text_query} | tee ${file}.txt
ansifilter -i ${file}.txt --html --doc-title "ack_2_html: ${file}" > ${file}.html
open ${file}.html