style

Add style to your output

Tired of the boring white on black output of your terminal? Need a little more emphasis? Or maybe display some quotes that make you smile or inspired in your terminal? (We all know that a quote is not a quote if it's not in italics)

Well, now you can format the output of your commands with style, see how bellow:

NOTE: Some terminals may not support some or all of the functionally in this script.

Setup

$ curl https://raw.github.com/LuRsT/style/master/style > ~/bin/style
(Examine ~/bin/style)
$ chmod +x ~/bin/style

Note: You should have ~/bin in your $PATH for this to work.

How to use it?

$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 lurst users  574 Feb 13 08:02 README.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lurst users 2045 Feb 13 07:58 style

$ ls -l | style -b      # Now the ouput is in bold
$ ls -l | style -C blue # Now the ouput is blue
$ ls -l | style -C 11   # Now the ouput is yellow-orangeish
$ ls -l | style -B blue # Now the ouput's background is blue
$ ls -l | style -B 11   # Now the ouput's background is yellow-orangeish
$ ls -l | style -i      # Now the ouput is in italics
$ ls -l | style -u      # Now the ouput is underlined
$ ls -l | style -t      # Now the ouput twinkles (aka "blink")

That's it, no requirements, just pure old bash, tput and getopts, check the source, it's free.

TODO:

• Add more functionality
• Make code more consistent (bold uses tput, italics doenst)
• Add to homebrew

Acknowledgments

Idea got while discussing the use of colours in hr here: LuRsT/hr#7

So, thank you!

• donebizkit
• cbanu

Note: I will not add every single contributor to this list, they are hardcoded here because the repo appeared only after the discussion.