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

capture-lolcat-raw-colors.md

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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