I like the idea of colored permissions. Even if your aren't looking specifically at them an ls -latest would draw your attention if something we're set insecurely.
Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal
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Re: Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal
#12Just to be clear, in case the post's headline misleads you, there's nothing OS X specific about colout - it'll work just as happily on Linux. The documentation even points to an PPA from where you can install an Ubuntu package.
Re: Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal
#13This might be a dumb question: are there shells that have a HTML-based front and passes commands into the background? Seems like something like that would be far more flexible than this – which feels like a Jenga tower of hacks.
Re: Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal
#14This might be a dumb question: are there shells that have a HTML-based front and passes commands into the background? Seems like something like that would be far more flexible than this – which feels like a Jenga tower of hacks.
TermKit[1] was built in this way a few years ago. It was novel at the time and the demo[2] seemed promising, but looks like it hasn't been updated in ~2 years now.
Re: Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal
#15The background image of this site causes a weird strobing effect on the screen of my MacBook Pro 6,2. Really odd. When I drag it over to the cinema display it looks fine. Noone else here in the office can see it, both those with good vision and those who are technically blind. Maybe I have special powers. Or a brain tumor. EDIT: The tool is great btw :)
Try this test page: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/inversion.php
This is somewhere between "oh god my eyes" and extremely interesting. Thanks for sharing that!
Re: Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal
#16Not entirely sure of the feature overlap, but this seems to reinvent grcat and its frontend, grc [1], a little bit. Grcat lets you configure commands with colour regexps. Then you just prefix the command with "grc", and it will colorize the output according the rules. It's useful to alias commands this way: $ alias make="grc make" colout seems most useful when you are want to highlight arbitrary patterns independent…
Indeed. Having to build configuration file for each command was a pain in the ass. Colout is better integrated in my shell workflow and shows that config files are not mandatory (but colout themes do just the same).
Plus, colout have a tons of additional features (256-colors mode, colormaps, etc.).
Re: Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal
#17Just installed it via pip and gave it a try. I like it! I think I can already find some interesting uses for it. A couple of suggestions: The website says: colout -r will give you the lists of available colors, colormaps, themes and supported programming languages. But I think that's a typo and should be 'colout -h'. Also, a handy alias list of common use cases would be great.
The `-h` switch show the help, but the `-r` show the resources loaded at startup.
Alias for common use cases are named "themes" in the list of resources.
Re: Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal
#18Not entirely sure of the feature overlap, but this seems to reinvent grcat and its frontend, grc [1], a little bit. Grcat lets you configure commands with colour regexps. Then you just prefix the command with "grc", and it will colorize the output according the rules. It's useful to alias commands this way: $ alias make="grc make" colout seems most useful when you are want to highlight arbitrary patterns independent…
Indeed. Having to build configuration file for each command was a pain in the ass. Colout is better integrated in my shell workflow and shows that config files are not mandatory (but colout themes do just the same). Plus, colout have a tons of additional features (256-colors mode, colormaps, etc.).
Really? grcat/grc's configs are very simple. For example, this is the config for colorizing diffs:
regexp=^\+(.*$)
colours=bold green
count=more
=======
regexp=^\-(--.+$|[^\-].*$|$)
colours=bold red
count=more
========
regexp=^\>([^\>].*|$)
colours=bold green
count=more
=======
regexp=^\You should consider inverting the way it's invoked, though, to be more like grc, otherwise you can't reliably use colout in an alias (as pointed out elsewhere in this thread).
Re: Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal
#19Is it just me or is there a bug shown in their second example? The closing square bracket isn't coloured.
Re: Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal
#20It doesn't do alternating colors, but this reminded me of cw, which saves you the trouble of explicitly piping the output of common commands.