colored

Highlight the output of commands (with my preferences)

colored ls ...
colored diff ...

Setup

Requirements

• GNU Make
• C++11 compiler
• POSIX 2003 API
• ncursesw (optional)

Download & Build

$ git clone git@github.com:akinomyoga/colored.git
$ cd colored
$ make

If you do not have ncursesw library headers, please use the following command instead of make.

$ make use_ncurses=no

Install

With the following command, colored will be installed to the specified directory (e.g., /path/to/install in the following example). If PREFIX is not specified, the default install position is $HOME/.mwg. To use the colored command, please be sure to have /path/to/install/bin in your PATH environment variable.

$ make PREFIX=/path/to/install install

With the following aliases you will have highlighted outputs of ls and diff. You can put them in your ~/.bashrc configuration.

alias ls='colored ls'
alias diff='colored diff'