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nicky
May 31, 2012, 5:26:14 PM5/31/12
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I would like to create a grep to be able to colorize and
indent phrases in this way. Is it possible to do that in grep ? Please
help me.
Thanks
1. word word word word word word word word word word word word word
word word word word word word etc, (black)
1.1. word word word word word word word word word word word word
word word word-red
1.1.1 word word word word word word word word word word
word word word word word word word word word word word word word
word word word word (blue)
1.1.1.1 (green)
2. word word word word word word word word word word word word word
word word word word word word etc, (black)
2.1. word word word word word word word word word word word word
word word word word word word word word word word word word word
word word word word word (red)
2.1.1 word word word word word word word word word word word word
word word word word word word word word word word word word word
word word word (blue)
The number of phrases are infinite
Tim Roberts
Jun 1, 2012, 2:57:47 AM6/1/12
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nicky <nicolas_l...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to create a grep to be able to colorize and
>indent phrases in this way. Is it possible to do that in grep ?
Grep doesn't do that. Grep searches through files and prints the lines
>
> I would like to create a grep to be able to colorize and
>indent phrases in this way. Is it possible to do that in grep ?
that contain the search phrase.
However, I suspect you didn't really mean "grep" here. Perhaps you should
try stating your problem again. What goes in, and what comes out? Are you
displaing to a terminal or printing to PostScript?
--
Tim Roberts, ti...@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Eric Pement
Jun 1, 2012, 2:05:23 PM6/1/12
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On Friday, June 1, 2012 1:57:47 AM UTC-5, Tim Roberts wrote:
> nicky <nicolas_l...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to create a grep to be able to colorize and
> >indent phrases in this way. Is it possible to do that in grep ?
>
> Grep doesn't do that. Grep searches through files and prints the lines
> that contain the search phrase.
>
> However, I suspect you didn't really mean "grep" here.
No, I think he really did mean grep, but he was referring to GNU grep. Try this command to see it with GNU grep:
> nicky <nicolas_l...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to create a grep to be able to colorize and
> >indent phrases in this way. Is it possible to do that in grep ?
>
> Grep doesn't do that. Grep searches through files and prints the lines
> that contain the search phrase.
>
> However, I suspect you didn't really mean "grep" here.
echo hello | grep --color=always "he"
From a GNU/Linux shell prompt, type "info grep" and consult the info page for the environment variable called "GREP_COLORS". Eight color possibilities are set by default, with at least 10 options that can be set.
However, the info pages on the color options are difficult to read, and I suspect that Nick was hoping for alternating color possibilities, based on different regular expressions.
If I am reading the info pages correctly, what he's asking is not possible, even given the large array of options in GREP_COLORS. Setting different color combination to (mt,ms,mc) variable components will not cause different colors to be applied to alternate egrep patterns "like|this|or|that".
But if I'm misreading the info pages, someone please correct me.
Eric Pement
Eli the Bearded
Jun 1, 2012, 4:59:59 PM6/1/12
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In comp.editors, Eric Pement <eric....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, June 1, 2012 1:57:47 AM UTC-5, Tim Roberts wrote:
>> nicky <nicolas_l...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> I would like to create a grep to be able to colorize and
>>> indent phrases in this way. Is it possible to do that in grep ?
>> Grep doesn't do that. Grep searches through files and prints the lines
>> that contain the search phrase.
>> However, I suspect you didn't really mean "grep" here.
> No, I think he really did mean grep, but he was referring to GNU grep.
That's ggrep, then. Seriously, there are a lot of versions of grep,
> On Friday, June 1, 2012 1:57:47 AM UTC-5, Tim Roberts wrote:
>> nicky <nicolas_l...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> I would like to create a grep to be able to colorize and
>>> indent phrases in this way. Is it possible to do that in grep ?
>> Grep doesn't do that. Grep searches through files and prints the lines
>> that contain the search phrase.
>> However, I suspect you didn't really mean "grep" here.
> No, I think he really did mean grep, but he was referring to GNU grep.
and they each have different functionality. /usr/bin/grep on Solaris
is nothing like /usr/bin/grep on Ubuntu.
Well, for some values of "nothing" at least.
> Try this command to see it with GNU grep:
>
> echo hello | grep --color=always "he"
^[[01;31m^[[Khe^[[m^[[Kllo
Charming, ain't it. And near as I can tell, gnu grep will identify
all intra-line matches for coloring, but doesn't have an option to
print the total number of matches, just the posix "-c" which prints
number of lines with matches. A victory of gloss over substance.
ObEditors:
:set hlsearch
turns on a similar coloring thing in vim
Elijah
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does not use colors in ggrep or vim
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