Stream Coloriser

strec allows to colorise a stream (like stdout or stderr) by mapping regular expression groups to color names.

The project was originally inspired by garabik/grc.

Possible Use-Cases

• Colorise log-files during monitoring:

  tail -f /var/log/apache/access.log | strec -c /path/to/apache-colors.yml
  

• Apply coloring rules to existing commands:

  strec -- ls -l
  

• Alias existing commands with their colorised wrapper:

  alias ls="strec -- ls"
  

Screenshots

A python setup session
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Simple aptitude search
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Apache access_log
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Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Config Files
• Usage
  • As a pipe element
  • Spawn a subprocess, capture it’s output
• Configuration
  • YAML
  • “grc” style config
• Inspiration
  • Key Differences

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page