Hi, I'm interested in cascading a bunch of coloring greps to
syntax-highlight lines. E.g. given the string:
user3 changed from Online to Offline
I'd like to be able to issue something like:
GREP_COLORS='...white...' grep user3 |
GREP_COLORS='...green...' grep Online |
GREP_COLORS='...red.....' grep Offline
so that I see (in my made-up markup language):
<white>user3</white> changed from <green>Online</green> to
<red>Offline</red>
However, it appears that grep always resets the coloring on the
non-matching portions of the line. Is there any way around this? Is
there a more suitable tool (perhaps some general-purpose syntax
highlighting tool)? Thanks in advance for any help!
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Yang Zhang
http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/
