color-utils - a list of colorful utilities

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color-utils - a list of colorful utilities

Unread post by stark » Mon Dec 01, 2014 4:58 pm

Came across this one today :)

ls++ - colorized ls on steroids - Github
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Re: ls++ - colorized ls on steroids

Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Dec 02, 2014 1:44 am

Nice, but a bit too much overhead :) Needs https://github.com/trapd00r/Term-ExtendedColor first, heavy dependencies on Perl. Well, have fun :)
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Re: ls++ - colorized ls on steroids

Unread post by stark » Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:54 am

Yeah its not for serious use cases :) and the perl modules and deps are a downside.

Oh and there's also this from the same author:

https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS
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Re: ls++ - colorized ls on steroids

Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Dec 02, 2014 1:44 pm

A bit off, but somehow related:

colortail - colorize tail
clog - colorize logs
colordiff - colorize differences
colormake - make make colorful
colorgcc - colorize gcc warnings
lwatch - colorize logs
supercat - colorize text

and of course nyancat (yes, it's in the repos!)
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Re: ls++ - colorized ls on steroids

Unread post by stark » Tue Dec 02, 2014 2:19 pm

^ I'm like O_O \\(*0*)/

If i could i would rename this thread to 'colorutils - a set of colorful utilities' ;)
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Re: ls++ - colorized ls on steroids

Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Dec 02, 2014 3:08 pm

stark wrote:^ I'm like O_O \\(*0*)/

If i could i would rename this thread to 'colorutils - a set of colorful utilities' ;)
Simply edit your first post subject - if you want. :)
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Re: color-utils - a list of colorful utilities

Unread post by stark » Tue Dec 02, 2014 3:29 pm

^ Thanks alot wux :D
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Re: color-utils - a list of colorful utilities

Unread post by stark » Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:20 pm

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Re: color-utils - a list of colorful utilities

Unread post by stark » Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:23 pm

All of the following from the mighty Inconsolation Blog:

lolcat - Rainbows and unicorns!
grc - More colorizing for terminal output.
acoc - Arbitrary Command Output Colourer.
color - Colourize arbitrary terminal application output using a config file.
wdiff - It collects the diff output and uses it to produce a nicer display of word differences between the original files.
colorwrapper - README
rainbow - Colorize commands output or STDIN using patterns.
pygments - generic syntax highlighter
highlighter - Highlights words in text

There's also some other variants thats mentioned in the Inconsolation Blog so you may want to check those out.
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Re: color-utils - a list of colorful utilities

Unread post by machinebacon » Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:55 am

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Re: color-utils - a list of colorful utilities

Unread post by stark » Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:59 am

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Re: ls++ - colorized ls on steroids

Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:18 pm

machinebacon wrote:A bit off, but somehow related:
and of course nyancat (yes, it's in the repos!)
This is... fantastic. I could watch it all day. Thanks MB.
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