please offer a way to pipe shell output in 'i/o view' through external tool

[dothebart]

depending on the shell environment, tools can create escape sequence to colorize the output of commands. The current effect can for example be viewed at : ​http://ns-regression.ee.washington.edu:8010/builders/fc10-g%2B%2B-4.4.0/builds/629/steps/shell_18/logs/stdio next to 'Entering directory' after a little digging I found ​http://www.andre-simon.de/zip/ansifilter-1.3.tar.bz2 which can create corrosponding HTML tags for those Ansi sequences; (it can also just remove them, like a simple regex also could)

#generate some file with escape sequences...

ls --color=always >/tmp/bla

#make them colored in html:

cat /tmp/bla |./ansifilter -H --fragment

<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#008000; background-color:#ffffff;">ansifilter</span>* (an executable file...)

platform_fs.o (an ordinary file...)

<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#000080; background-color:#ffffff;">qt-gui</span>/ (a directory)

--fragment makes it not print an html head/tail.

[dustin]

We could probably do this with a command-line client in the brave new mq world..