Color Linux command output

Question

For example, I\'d like to color the output of the locate command so it\'s easily distinguished from the other terminal text.

It should work something li

Answer 1

norm="$(printf '\033[0m')" #returns to "normal"
bold="$(printf '\033[0;1m')" #set bold
red="$(printf '\033[0;31m')" #set red
boldred="$(printf '\033[0;1;31m')" #set bold, and set red.

somecommand | sed -e "s/someregexp/${boldred}&${norm}/g"  # will color any occurence of someregexp in Bold red

printf "%s" "$red" ; locate something ; printf "%s" "$norm"  # will color output of locate something in red
   #I (ab)use printf "%s" "something", as it's more portable than echo,and easy to modify

There are many other ways (create a function/script that can colorize a regexp, for example, and then : somecommand | colorize -c green 'foo.*bar' 'other' )