Hello wise ones,

I have a simple goal of being able to color highlight certain lines of output matched by a regex when using the tail -f command. For example:

If the word "ERROR" appears in the log line, color the whole line red on output

So I want this nice little command window merrily spewing out lines from logfiles and color highlighting certain lines with certain text.

I am also interested in any other tricks to make command line programs look cooler such as:

A rotating star using the characters \ | / - (seen on some unix install tools)

or

Progress bars (as seen on secure copy commands)

How is this kind of dynamic in place line output achieved?

I am on Windows XP Pro with ActivePerl 5.8

Adam

In reply to Stupid console tricks (or color highlighted tail) by icius

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