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Daniels Colorize.pl

Colorize.pl is a short script that reads from stdin and writes to stdout. Rows that match a user's search strings will be colorized with user-defined colors. Command line options are available. Colorization is done via ANSI escape codes.

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  •  10 Jan 2008 22:47

Release Notes: Support was added for regular expressions for the partial colorization.

  •  24 May 2006 03:01

Release Notes: A warning was removed.

  •  22 May 2006 17:43

Release Notes: Allows no background colors. Support for choosing between colorizing whole rows or just the matching words.

  •  28 Apr 2006 10:51

Release Notes: This release adds a quick colorization option. It only needs the option "-:searchstring" to colorize a row without the user needing to think of good matching color variations.

  •  26 Apr 2006 13:42

No changes have been submitted for this release.

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24 May 2006 02:58 dflinkmann Thumbs up

Re: other similar programs

> You might want to check out csed and

> colorize. The

> former is a lot more feature-full, the

> latter is the same kind of

> program (driven by a config file rather

> than options)

csed and colorize are both really nice tool, however my idea behind colorize.pl is extremly easy usage, which I was missing from all tools I tried out.

As you can see you just need to know that +:STRING or -:STRING is enough to use it. No need to read 20 minutes of documentation ;-)

Cheers,

Daniel

23 May 2006 03:05 bwana147

other similar programs
You might want to check out csed and colorize. The
former is a lot more feature-full, the latter is the same kind of
program (driven by a config file rather than options)

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