Arbitrary Command Output Colourer
acoc is a regular-expression based colour formatter for programs that display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream. Optionally, stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be manipulated. acoc then applies matching rules to patterns in the output and applies colours to those matches.
| Tags | Desktop Environment Theme Theme Resources fonts Console Fonts Systems Administration Text Processing Filters Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Ruby |
Recent releases
- 26 Feb 2005 22:30
Changes: SIGPIPE is now caught while exiting.
- 31 Oct 2004 18:55
Changes: It is now possible to use regular expressions in program specs, such as [ps -.*(e.*f|f.*e)]. A bug was fixed where having /usr/acoc/bin in one's $PATH could cause acoc to be invoked multiple times.
- 23 Oct 2004 06:50
Changes: A user-definable config file may now be specified in $ACOCRC, and new coloring specs were added for netstat, nmap, and other commands.
- 05 Apr 2004 02:51
Changes: The handling of command line glob arguments that expand to strings containing single quotes was fixed. Previously, such expansions interacted poorly with /bin/sh and would result in a failure to run the given command. The ARGV array is now expanded to its constituent parts when passed to the colour method. A superfluous debugging statement was removed.
- 05 Feb 2004 01:01
Changes: This version catches SIGCHLD on all systems.
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Hi,
please give a brief overview how your programm compares to some of the other colorizers. E.g.
Generic Colouriser (http://freshmeat.net/projects/genericcolouriser/).