display ansi art in your terminal - a CP437 to UTF-8 converter

ansi.sh

#!/bin/bash
# ansi art converter

help() {
	echo "Usage: $0 <path-to-ans-file>"
	echo "Example: $0 ~/docs/ansi/x0-krad.ans"
	exit 1
}
deps() {
	local dependencies=("iconv" "awk" "perl")
	for dep in "${dependencies[@]}"; do
		if ! command -v "$dep" &> /dev/null; then
			echo "error: Required dependency '$dep' is not installed."
			exit 1
		fi
	done
}
breaks() {
	perl -pe 's/\r\n/\n/g' "$1" | head -c -128
}
colors() {
	perl -pe '
		s/\e\[1;30m/\e[0;90m/g;
		s/\e\[1;31m/\e[0;91m/g;
		s/\e\[1;32m/\e[0;92m/g;
		s/\e\[1;33m/\e[0;93m/g;
		s/\e\[1;34m/\e[0;94m/g;
		s/\e\[1;35m/\e[0;95m/g;
		s/\e\[1;36m/\e[0;96m/g;
		s/\e\[1;37m/\e[0;97m/g;
	'
}
convert() {
	iconv -f CP437 -t UTF-8
}
# error trapping
deps
[ $# -ne 1 ] && help
[ ! -f "$1" ] && {
	echo "error: file not found!"
	help
}
# parser logic
breaks "$1" | convert | colors