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I use a custom function: function hl() { local R=$1; shift && egrep --color=always "|$R" $@; }
by dmayle 14y ago
I use a custom function:
function hl() { local R=$1; shift && egrep --color=always "|$R" $@; }
- philsnow 14y agoegregious use of color (uses 256-color term support): function hl() { local R=''; while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do R="$R|$1"; shift; done; env GREP_COLORS="mt=38;5;$((RANDOM%256))" egrep --color=always $R; } then do e.g. whatever pipeline | hl foo bar baz | hl quux | hl '^.* frob.*$' | less -R results in foo/bar/baz highlighted in one color, quux in another, and whole lines containing frob in another. hopefully the colors aren't indistinguishable from each other or from the terminal background :\ I use a somewhat similar setup in emacs, where a key binding adds the word under point to a syntax highlighting table, but the color is computed as the first 6 characters of the md5sum of the word.