Re: [LUG] colour in bash print/echo statements?

[Peter Walker <peter.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Williams wrote:

> When you've got a bash script or perl script running in bash that produces 
> reams of output (e.g. if you logged it all to a file it would be 30k per run) 
> is there any way of adapting the script to produce certain sections in 
> colour?
>
>  

The short answer is yes :-)

> e.g. critical error reports in red, success in green, warnings in magenta or 
> cyan.
>
>  
I would have thought that the colourising(?) method would depend on how 
you are viewing the log file. Are the lines flagged by keyword? If they 
are then it is probably easier to use a colourising viewer which would 
be configured to recognise the keywords.

I'm sure you could get Emacs to do this for you (it seems to do 
everything else!).

Try googling for "colorize log".

Cheers,

Pete

> It would make it much easier to see what is going on.
>
>  


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