CODEWITHSUNDEEP
perl
User19952201
User19952201

Reputation: 21

ANSIColor printing to file

Hi I am trying to print colored text in terminal as well as in file also, I am using "tee" command to print the contents in terminal has to be printed in file. But I am not able to print colored text in file, but in terminal i can print colored texts

Here is my code: 

#!usr/bin/perl
use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper);
use Cwd;
use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
local $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET = 1;
open( STDOUT, "| tee -ai report.txt" );
print BOLD RED "Here your texts are colored\n";

I am able to print "Here your texts are colored" in BOLD RED, but same thing i am not able to print in report.txt, if i open the report.txt i am getting [0m[0m[1m[32m Here your texts are colored

Please help me to solve this

thanks in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 414

Answers (1)

Dave Cross
Dave Cross

Reputation: 69314

There's nothing to solve. You program is working as expected.

The ANSI colour codes are just characters. Your ANSI terminal is configured to look for these sequences of characters and to change the colour of the text when it sees them. Whatever software you are using to view your file has no such feature.

In general, there is no way to encode colour in a plain text file in such a way that the colour is displayed in any software that is used to view the file.

In order for us to help, you need to explain a little more. Why do you want coloured text in your text file?

Upvotes: 2

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