golored

Simply color your shell scripts' output by piping it into this program.

If you are intereseted in a more lightweight but also less-features version written in Shell, see alexcoder04/shclrz.

Installation

Arch Linux

Golored is available on the AUR. Either install it manually or use an AUR helper of your choice.

Pre-built binaries

Download the corresponding binary for your system from the releases page.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/alexcoder04/golored.git
cd golored
make build   # to compile
make install # to install the binary to your $GOPATH

Usage

golored [-s SOURCE_FILE] formatting...

golored [-help / -i / -ii]

argument	function
-help	print help
-i	print color codes
-ii	print extended color codes (8-bit)
-s SOURCE_FILE	read from file

Examples:

golored -s file.txt f:red underline

Outputs the content of file.txt underlined and with red foreground.

ls | golored b:blue

Colors the output of ls with blue background.

List of colors:

black, blue, red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, white

0-255 (8-bit, use -ii flag to see how they look)

Prepend with f: to specify the foreground and with b: for background.

List of formatting options:

bold, dim, italic, underline