Encode bytes into ANSI color codes and decode ANSI colors into bytes.

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 or decode them back again. Therefor the trait provides the functions encode() and decode().

Command line utility

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

$ 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.