Peacock is Extraordinary Arbitrary Command Output Colouring Kit -----------------------------------
peacock command [arg1 .. argN]
Peacock is a regular expression based colour formatter for programs that display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the target program, executing it in a pseudo terminal. This means that it is possible to colourise programs that take full control of the terminal.
Peacock applies matching rules to patterns in the output and applies colour sets to those matches. If the $ACOC environment variable is set to 'none', Peacock will not perform any colouring.
- Python 3
- ANSI Terminal
- *NIX
- Run any command, but coloured with ANSI colours:
peacock command ordinary arguments. - Peacock needs acoc.conf to work; see docs/acoc.conf.html for more info and docs/acoc.conf for a boilerplate config.
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Pythonized by Antti Haapala <antti@haapala.name>
PTY code adapted from sample by Joshua D. Bartlett
Idea, original documentation and original Ruby version by Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
Copyright (C) 2013-2016 Antti Haapala
Original Ruby Code and configuration Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Ian Macdonald
Licensed under GPLv3.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- acoc.conf
- /usr/local/etc/acoc.conf
- /etc/acoc.conf
- ~/.acoc.conf
$ACOCRCIf set, this specifies the location of an additional configuration file.
Peacock is only as good as the configuration file that it uses. If you compose pattern-matching rules that you think would be useful to other people, please send them to me for inclusion in a subsequent release.
- acoc.conf
- acoc home page - http://www.caliban.org/ruby/
- Nested regular expressions do not work well. Inner subexpressions need to use clustering
(?:), not capturing(). In other words, they can be used for matching, but not for colouring.