Re: [PATCH] dmesg colorized output

Petr Uzel
2012-10-10T12:09:54Z

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On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:33:34AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:26:09AM +0200, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 11:19 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 09:44:05AM +0200, Ondrej Oprala wrote:
> > > > new file mode 100644
> >
> > Hehe I actually started doing this last night.
> >
> > I'm wondering if we actually need a new lib file for colors. I mean
> > AFAICT, dmesg is the only place we want to use it and I don't see that
>
> What about fdisk where we have many dialogs, warnings, hints? :-) It's
> not about colors only, but also about bold, etc.
>
> The another possibility is namei(1) where we can provide output
> compatible with ls(1), or cal(1), etc.
>
> > changing any time soon - Unix hackers don't like colors, we live oh so
> > boring lives :)
>
> All this should be optional. I guess than many people use aliases with
> colors
>
> $ alias | grep color
> alias egrep='egrep --color=tty'
> alias fgrep='fgrep --color=tty'
> alias grep='grep --color=tty'
> alias l.='ls -d .* --color=auto'
> alias ll='ls -l --color=auto'
> alias ls='ls --color=auto'

I totally agree. Colored output from various tools could make it
easier to work with, but it has to be optional.

My 2c.

Petr

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