About:
cw is a non-intrusive real-time ANSI color wrapper for common Unix-based commands. It is designed to simulate the environment of the commands being executed, so that if a person types 'du', 'df', 'ping', etc. in their shell it will automatically color the output in real-time according to a definition file containing the color format desired. It has support for wildcard match coloring, tokenized coloring, headers/footers, case scenario coloring, command-line- dependent definition coloring, and includes over 50 pre- made definition files.

Author:
vade79 [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.20/10.00 (3 votes)

Homepage:
http://cwrapper.sourceforge.net
Tar/GZ:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cwrapper/cw-1.0.15.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cwrapper/cw-1.0.15.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://cwrapper.sourceforge.net/CHANGES
Mirror site:
http://fakehalo.us/cw/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Other Environment
[Intended Audience]		Advanced End Users, End Users/Desktop, Other Audience
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows :: Cygwin, POSIX, POSIX :: BSD, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: NetBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: OpenBSD, POSIX :: GNU/Hurd, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris
[Programming Language]		C, Other Scripting Engines
[Topic]		Desktop Environment, Desktop Environment :: Application Themes, Desktop Environment :: Application Themes :: Shells, Desktop Environment :: Theme, Desktop Environment :: Theme :: Engine, Desktop Environment :: Theme :: Operating Systems, Desktop Environment :: Theme Resources, Desktop Environment :: Tools, Text Processing, Text Processing :: Filters, Text Processing :: General, Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
gcc (required)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.0.15	25-Sep-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] color wrapper cw-1.0.4
by John Wildberger - Oct 25th 2004 17:46:08

With cw enabled I experienced problems with installation of programs from source. The config.guess that is invoked during the 'make depend' stage can no longer guess the system type. Removing cw eliminates this problem.
John

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[»] Re: color wrapper cw-1.0.4
by vade79 - Oct 27th 2004 10:13:53

if you'd send me an email with the specific source that this occured on, os/dist and such information id be happy to check into it.

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[»] Re: color wrapper cw-1.0.4
by vade79 - Dec 28th 2004 11:42:44

This should be fixed by now (1.0.6), although I have personally not experienced the problem I can GUESS at the reason. If anyone experiences this problem for some reason, after v1.0.6, please e-mail me.

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[»] Awesome :)
by TormentoR - Aug 17th 2004 15:58:17

I just installed this on my shell!

It looks very l33t ;)

Loads of users are gonna like this, me most of all :)

Thanks! And keep on updating the commands and coloring!

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[»] strange solution
by Stanislav Ievlev - Aug 11th 2004 07:35:38

Hi!
I think it's a strange idea to create own
language for such simple task.
e.g. in my project csed
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/csed) I use sed
like syntax with regular expresions.

It's enough for all command-line utilites and
compillers.

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[»] Re: strange solution
by vade79 - Aug 11th 2004 11:41:18

yes, i saw your project before i started making cw. your project was nice for coloring output/log files, but i found it to be too intrusive to be used for more than that; most specifically you cant make different definitions/rules for different command-line arguments and i felt it would be better to make a miniture definition language which was explicitly designed to color, instead of regex(sed-like syntax) which is not really designed for coloring. hate to disagree, but i found it wasnt enough for 'all command-line utilities', at least as much as i wanted or the way i liked.

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[»] Re: strange solution
by vade79 - Jan 10th 2005 21:41:44

as an update of sorts: regex(regular expressions) has been implemented in the form of the "regex" definition instruction in v1.0.7 for those who desire it.

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