colorexp

README

Colorexp

Colorexp is a command line tool that allows coloring of text matches from standard input with multiple colors, something that is not easy to achieve with tools like grep and less.

Colorexp

• uses the Go regexp format, as documented here.
• supports overlapping matches (the color for the last pattern that matches will be used)

Usage

Usage: colorexp [options] patterns...
-F, --fixed-strings   Don't interpret regular expression metacharacters.
-H, --highlight       Color by changing the background color.
-i, --ignore-case     Perform case insensitive matching.

Example

Installation

Homebrew on MacOS

brew tap EugenDueck/tap https://github.com/EugenDueck/homebrew-tap
brew install colorexp

All OSes

• Download a Release from https://github.com/EugenDueck/colorexp/releases

Build

go build colorexp.go