histring(1)
| HISTRING(1) | General Commands Manual | HISTRING(1) |
NAME
histring - highlight strings using ANSI terminal escape sequences
SYNOPSIS
histring [ options ] <pattern> [file]...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the histring command.
histring is a program that highlights strings using ANSI terminal escape codes.
OPTIONS
histring supports the following options:
- --help
- Show summary of options.
- --version
- Show version of program.
- -c, --color <name|number>
- Color to highlight in.
- -s, --style <name>
- Style to apply to highlight, if any styles are used then the color will not be implicitly bolded, you must bold it your self.
- -E, --extended
- Use extended regular expressions.
- -f, --force
- Force hilighting even if stdout is not a tty.
- -i, --ignore-case
- Ignore case distinctions.
- --debug
- Print debugging info.
- --credits
- Print the credits and exit.
USAGE EXAMPLES
- zip -T *.zip 2>&1 | histring -fEi 'warning |bad CRC|error: '
- Highlight warnings and errors when testing the integrity of zip files.
- hg diff | histring -fE '^Comparing files .*|^diff .*' | histring -c yellow -fE '^-.*' | histring -c green -fE '^+.*'
- Highlight interesting stuff from diff output.
SEE ALSO
glark(1).
AUTHOR
histring was written by Angus Mackay <amackay@gusnet.cx>.
This manual page was written by Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> for the grml project (but may be used by others).