It is possible to use colors on the Unix command-line interface.
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Removing control chars (including console codes / colours) from script output
I can use the "script" command to record an interactive session at the command line. However, this includes all control characters and colour codes. I can remove control characters (like backspace) ...
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How to have tail -f show colored output
I'd like to be able to tail the output of a server log file that has messages like:
INFO
SEVERE
etc, and if it's SEVERE, show the line in red; if it's INFO, in green. What kind of alias can I ...
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Is it possible to configure Bash so that STDERR can be a different color than STDOUT?
I'd like to set up my terminal to have STDOUT print regularly, but have STDERR print out in a different color, namely red, so I can tell the difference between the two, ie:
STDOUT: HELLO WORLD
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Can I set my local machine's terminal colors to use those of the machine I ssh into?
I have a color scheme that I like for when I'm in a terminal, but I ssh into the machine I work on from multiple sources (locally, PuTTY, my netbook, etc.) and I want to maintain the same color scheme ...
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Getting 256 colors to work in tmux
I have 256 colors working just fine in konsole,. I thought I'd give tmux a try because, unlike screen, it seems to support vi mode. However I find that the colors of my prompt show up and this is ...
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How to check if bash can print colors
I want to know if there's any way to check if my program can output terminal output using colors or not.
Running commands like less and looking at the output from a program that outputs using ...
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Testing LS_COLORS in zsh
A few years ago I found an interesting code snippet that prints each type of file in its corresponding color according to the colors set up in LS_COLORS. Unfortunately, I can't remember the link ...
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Customizing bash shell: Bold/color the command
There are a number of tutorials/posts online (e.g. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-shell-change-the-color-of-my-shell-prompt-under-linux-or-unix/) about how to customize your prompt in bash by ...
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16 Colors in ZShell
I only seem to be able to call 8 colors in my zshell prompt.
Example:
PROMPT="[%n@%{$fg[magenta]%}%m%{$reset_color%} %.]
%# "
Works fine. However,
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Where to get Kate color schemes?
Does anyone know where one could find some good Kate color schemes for syntax highlighting?
The only ones that I found that work fine are zenburn and mdark.
Besides those two, I couldn't find ...
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Colors in Man Pages
When I look at a man page in my 'console' (not an xterm) I see some coloration, but I don't get this in my xterm's (e.g. konsole) is there any way I can enable this? hopefully a fairly simple ...
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Can less retain colored output?
Can I get less not to monochrome its output?
E.g., the output from git diff is colored, but git diff | less is not.
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How can you change the GNU screen status line based on hostname?
I have a shared home directory that is automounted via NFS on all the UNIX servers I log in to. I would like to have a single .screenrc that (for example) puts the hostname in the hardstatus line in a ...
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xterm colors are too bright
I've just started using dwm a couple days ago and I'm using xterm (uxterm) as a terminal emulator.
However, I'm noticing that certain applications (like vi/vim, ls, and others) that output in color ...
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Where do my ANSI escape codes go when I pipe to another process? Can I keep them?
I sometime want to pipe the color-coded output fror a process, eg. grep... but when I pipe it to another process, eg. sed, the color codes are lost...
Is the some way to keep thes codes intact ?
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how to make XTerm never use bold characters?
I am trying to make XTerm to never use a bold font, and nothing seems to work. I put settings in ~/.Xresources and then run xrdb ~/.Xresources and then start a new XTerm. This is what I try:
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Converting colored output into html
There are tools providing coloured output:
dwdiff -c File1 File2 # word level diff
grep --color=always # we all know this guy
...
The question is: How to convert their colored output of arbitrary ...
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`highlight` command
Is there a command which can be used to easily highlight (with colors, bold text or inverted back-/foreground) specific strings in stdin while passing the entire string to stdout? I'm thinking of ...
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Is it possible to use named colors in Zsh beyond ANSI names?
I know there are ways to use ANSI color names in Zsh (such as red), but Zsh supports 256 colors by number. I'm curious if there's any way to refer to the non-ANSI colors by a name? (Without just ...
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Color calibration on Linux Mint
I'm running Linux Mint 9.
I installed Argyll and gnome-color-manager but neither of those have a GUI. I need to configure my monitor colors. Right now the white looks a little yellow etc. and I want ...
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Print console colors
Wrote a bash function to display the console colors.
But, it seems some of the colors are not possible to show that way! (?)
Also, note the strange "bright black"!
(Note: The below screendump is of ...
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Colored FIND output?
Is it possible to get colored output from the find command? That is, in the path of each found item, directories are blue, executable scripts are green, et cetera? I'm using version 4.4.2 of GNU ...
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Pass colors from ls through pipe to awk 'print' statement
This is a follow-up to my question from yesterday, Show sum of file sizes in directory listing.
Thanks to Zero Piraeus and a point in the right direction by Mauritz Hansen, I now have
function ...
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Prevent watch breaking colors
I'm altering scripts at work that monitor log files to single out certain items and colorize them. The final output is a list of 6-digit numbers in several columns. I've been able to add a ~ to the ...
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Is it possible to modify the colors in bash? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to configure Bash so that STDERR can be a different color than STDOUT?
In bash, the only color I know how to modify is the prompt, using \[ and \]. From ...
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Setting up LS colors with a human-readable script in tcsh
I have a shell script (set_up_my_ls_colors.sh) that, if I call from my shell, it configures my color scheme for ls. The nice thing about the script is that it allows me to configure colors in a ...
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Overriding the shade of color displayed
I have to work on systems which display some colors that are hard to read. I ssh into these systems, but don't have management permission to change the colors they display. Is there any way I can ...
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How can I list LS_COLORS in colour?
I recall that eval "dircolors -b" used to display the colours that LS_COLORS was using, based on the file types or extensions. It was not simply the colour values that were displayed but the colours ...
