Re: [PATCH] dmesg colorized output

Karel Zak
2012-10-10T09:33:38Z

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'

Karel

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