Re: Printing in red during output from head

[Chris Elvidge]

On 21/07/2021 02:50 pm, lisa-asket@perso.be wrote:
> I am almost there, but I am having the problom with the \e
>
>
>
>      find "$fdir" -type f -name "*.org" -o -name "*.texi"  \
>        | xargs head -n "$n"                                \
>        | sed -e 's/==>/^\e[01;31m==>/;s/<==/<==^\e[0m/'

Instead of typing ^\e, press Ctrl-V and then Esc

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>
> From: Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
> To: Chris Elvidge <celvidge001@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Printing in red during output from head
> Date: 21/07/2021 13:55:43 Europe/Paris
> Cc: help-bash <help-bash@gnu.org>
>
> shopt -s extglob dotglob globstar
> gawk -f my_too_big_thing -v ml=5 **/*@(.@(texi|org))
>
> btw for esc \33 or sometimes \e
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 1:48 PM Chris Elvidge <celvidge001@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 21/07/2021 02:17 am, lisa-asket@perso.be wrote:
> > > I am using the following command to output the first n lines of matched files.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > find "$fdir" \( -name \*.org -o -name \*.texi \) | xargs head -n "$n"
> >
> > How about:
> > find "$fdir" -type f -name "*.org" -o -name "*.texi" | xargs head -n
> > "$n" | sed -e 's/==>/^[[01;31m==>/;s/<==/<==^[[0m/'
> >
> > Where ^[ is escape (ctrl-v esc)
> >
> > --
> > Chris Elvidge
> > England


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