#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Term::ANSIColor; my @rules = @ARGV; while (my $line = ) { print rewrite($line, @rules); } exit; # Process a single line sub rewrite { my $line = shift; my @rules = @_; my @marks = (); # Process each rule and find areas to mark while (@rules) { my $regex = shift @rules; my $color = shift @rules || 'bold yellow'; $color = color('reset').color($color); while ($line =~ /$regex/ig) { my $reset = undef; # Scan match area to find last color foreach my $i (reverse $-[0] .. $+[0]) { if (defined $marks[$i]) { $reset = $marks[$i] unless defined $reset; $marks[$i] = undef; # Cancel previous color } } # If necessary, keep scanning to beginning of line unless (defined $reset) { foreach my $i (reverse 0 .. $-[0]) { if (defined $marks[$i]) { $reset = $marks[$i]; last; } } } # Mark area $marks[$-[0]] = $color; $marks[$+[0]] = $reset || color('reset'); } } # Apply color codes to the string foreach my $i (reverse 0 .. $#marks) { substr($line, $i, 0, $marks[$i]) if defined $marks[$i]; } return $line; } =pod =head1 NAME em - console emphasis tool version 2 =head1 DESCRIPTION em is a command line tool for visually emphasizing text in log files etc. by colorizing the output matching regular expressions. =head1 SYNOPSIS em REGEX1 [COLOR1] [REGEX2 [COLOR2]] ... [REGEXn [COLORn]] =head1 USAGE REGEX is any regular expression recognized by Perl. For some shells this must be enclosed in double quotes ("") to prevent the shell from interpolating special characters like * or ?. COLOR is any ANSI color string accepted by Term::ANSIColor, such as 'green' or 'bold red'. Any number of REGEX-COLOR pairs may be specified. If the number of arguments is odd (i.e. no COLOR is specified for the last REGEX) em will use 'bold yellow'. Overlapping rules are supported. For characters that match multiple rules, only the last rule will be applied. =head1 EXAMPLES In a system log, emphasize the words "error" and "ok": =over tail -f /var/log/messages | em error red ok green =back In a mail server log, show all email addresses between <> in white, successes in green: =over tail -f /var/log/maillog | em "(?<=\<)[\w\-\.]+?\@[\w\-\.]+?(?=\>)" "bold white" "stored message|delivered ok" "bold green" =back In a web server log, show all URIs in yellow: =over tail -f /var/log/httpd/access_log | em "(?<=\"get).+?\s" =back =head1 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS Multi-line matching is not implemented. All regular expressions are matched without case sensitivity. =head1 AUTHOR Andreas Lund =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2009-2013 Andreas Lund . This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut