% PRECOLOR(1) Version 1.0.0 | Colorize terminal output prefixes
NAME
precolor — pipe stdin to stdout, colorizing the first field separated by delimiter (tab by default)
SYNOPSIS
| precolor [-d delimiter]
DESCRIPTION
Pipes stdin to stdout, but adds a color to each unique line-prefix. Useful to quickly visualize related entries in a sea of output such as that from parallel --tag.
Options
-d
: Specify a delimiter (default is "\t").
The delimiter must be a single character.
EXAMPLES
$ seq 1 9 | parallel -j1 'printf "%d\t%d\n" $(({} % 3)) {}' | precolor
[red]1[/red] 1
[green]2[/green] 2
[yellow]3[/yellow] 3
[red]1[/red] 4
[green]2[/green] 5
[yellow]3[/yellow] 6
[red]1[/red] 7
[green]2[/green] 8
[yellow]3[/yellow] 9
BUGS
See GitHub Issues: https://github.com/jasisk/precolor/issues
AUTHOR
jasisk@gmail.com jasisk@gmail.com
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2018 Jean-Charles Sisk. MIT licensed.