ANSICAT(1)

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🦋 ANSICAT(1) 🦋

Okay bestie, welcome to ANSICAT(1), living its best life in the General Commands Manual 📖✨

💖 NAME 💖

ansicat — terminal gemini gemtext renderer for offpunk 💅

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

ansicat [--format RENDERER] [--mime MIME] [--url URL ...] [--mode MODE]
        [--linkmode LINKMODE] [INPUT ...]
ansicat -h | --help

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so ansicat is a terminal rendering tool that turns multiple formats (HTML, Gemtext, RSS, Gophermap, Image) into ANSI text and colors 🎨 It's giving main character energy. If you point it at a file, it'll try to autodetect the format all on its own ✨ But if you're feeding it standard input, you gotta tell it the format yourself 🙈 And if the content has links, you can give it the content's original URL so it can correctly modify relative links 🔗 iykyk.

🧚 Positional arguments

  • INPUT — the path to the text you want rendered 📄 If you don't give it one, it defaults to the standard input.

🎀 Keyword arguments

  • -h, --help — shows a help message and exits 🙋‍♀️
  • --format RENDERER — picks the renderer you want 🎨 Your options are auto, gemtext, html, feed, gopher, image, and folder. auto is the vibe-guesser 🔮 It heuristically figures out the format, either from the MIME type or from the file being rendered itself.
  • --mime MIME — the MIME type of the content you want parsed 🧾
  • --mode MODE — chooses how things render: normal (the default), full, or source 💜
  • --linkmode LINKMODE — how links get rendered: none (the default) or end 🔗 Heads up, this one won't affect render mode source 🙅‍♀️
  • --url URL ... — the original URL of the content 🌐

🚦 EXIT STATUS 🚦

The ansicat utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs 💀 So if you see anything bigger than zero, something went sideways.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The one and only Lionel Dricot (Ploum) <offpunk2 at ploum.eu> 🫶

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