Text to HTML conversion without any formatting

Question

I want to convert the output of a shell command to HTML, regardless of what the command prints.
I've tried using txt2html and pandoc but the first will not keep lines of hypens, even with the --nounhipenation param, and also formatting tags like < h1 > to some lines.

with txt2html this output:

TEST: SimpleTest
-----------------------------------
 All test completed in 1ms
 Warning: No asserts run!
 All assert(s) passed.
-----------------------------------

becomes:

<h1>TEST: SimpleTest</h1>
<p> All test completed in 1ms<br/>
 Warning: No asserts run!<br/>
 All assert(s) passed.
</p><hr/>

Notice the missing hypens and the spurious < h1 > < /h1 > and for some reason < hr/ > tags.

I would like it to output something like:

<p>TEST: SimpleTest<br/>
-----------------------------------<br/>
 All test completed in 1ms<br/>
 Warning: No asserts run!<br/>
 All assert(s) passed.
-----------------------------------<br/>
</p>

Scaping the odd characters like áÁéóú and sed seems to have a grudge replacing newlines with stream input. If you happen to know how to do this with sed post a solution please :) — NeonMan, Feb 04 '14 at 01:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 03 '14 at 23:15

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I have done this before and the following has worked for me.

http://2partsmagic.com/util/text2html.jsp

answered Feb 03 '14 at 23:15

JD Vangsness

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While this solution works, I'm trying to make the conversion inside a shell script, probably offline for weeks, so webpages are a no-go. – NeonMan Feb 04 '14 at 01:38

Text to HTML conversion without *any* formatting

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Text to HTML conversion without any formatting