Colorizer

A tool for highlighting words in your terminal

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Quickstart

1. Download and change settings.json
2. Install colorizer and run

cargo install colorizer
cat server.log | colorizer --config settings.json --profile profile1

3. tail also work

tail -f server.log | colorizer --config settings.json --profile profile1

Install

cargo install colorizer

How to get and compile

git clone https://github.com/kulinsky/colorizer
cd colorizer
cargo build --release

How to use

1. create a settings file and create one or more profiles

{
  "default": {},
  "profile1": {}
}

2. profile can have key "substrings", which is a hashmap with a key: the search word, and a value: target color.
3. profile can have key "regex", which is a hashmap with a key: the search regex, and a value: target color.

{
  "default": {
    "substrings": {
      "info": "GREEN",
      "debug": "BLUE",
      "error": "RED"
    },
    "regex": {
      "(\\d{4})-(\\d{2})-(\\d{2})": "PURPLE"
    }
  },
  "profile1": {
    "substrings": {
      "null": "CYAN",
      "time": "YELLOW",
      "message": "PURPLE"
    }
  }
}

example is in the repository

now run the application

cat server.log | colorizer --config settings.json --profile profile1