NAME

acoc - arbitrary command output colourer

SYNOPSIS

acoc command [arg1 .. argN]
acoc -h|--help|-v|--version

DESCRIPTION

acoc is a regular expression based colour formatter for programs that display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream. Optionally, stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be manipulated.

acoc then applies matching rules to patterns in the output and applies colour sets to those matches.

OPTIONS

-h or --help

Display usage information.

-v or --version

Display version information.

AUTHOR

Written by Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003 Ian Macdonald

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

FILES

CONTRIBUTING

acoc is only as good as the configuration file that it uses. If you compose pattern-matching rules that you think would be useful to other people, please send them to me for inclusion in a subsequent release.

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