xterm2ansi

xterm2ansi is a command line utility for converting xterm escape codes to ANSI escape codes. It can convert xterm-256 escape codes to 4-bit ANSI escape codes.

Usage

• echo -e "text with xterm-256 escaped codes" | xterm2ansi
• xterm2ansi input.file
• [ansi_output_command] | xterm2ansi

Example

echo -e "\033[38;5;80mcyan\033[m" | xterm2ansi | cat -v
# ^[[36mcyan^[[0m

Installation

git clone https://github.com/zaidhaan/xterm2ansi.git
cd xterm2ansi
make
make install

TODO

Unlikely I'll work on this for long, but might be helpful to have

• input specified by -f
• parse first as input if no -f specified
• help and man page?