hlt

hlt

hlt is tool to highlight texts or lines matched a given pattern in files.

NOTE: Finished development of this CLI. But, I develop mkr(https://github.com/x-color/mkr) is a CLI marking a text. Please check it, If you need cli liked this.

Demo

simple highlight

formatting

highlight lines N to M

Usage

highlight

Basic usage

# highlight charactors in lines including 'text' in file.txt
$ hlt line text file.txt
$ cat file.txt | hlt line text

# highlight 'text' in file.txt
$ hlt word text file.txt
$ cat file.txt | hlt word text

# highlight line 2 to 10 and 20 to the end in file.txt
$ hlt linen 2~10,20~ file.txt
$ cat file.txt | hlt linen 2~10

Changing highlight color

# highlight charactors in lines red
$ cat file.txt | hlt line -c red text

# highlight background of lines blue
$ cat file.txt | hlt line -b blue text

Formatting

# bold format
$ cat file.txt | hlt line -B text

# italic format
$ cat file.txt | hlt line -I text

Options

Color Control

Settable colors are

• none
• black
• blue
• cyan
• green
• magenta
• red
• yellow
• 0 ~ 255

Format Control

Context Control

This options can be set to line command only.

Customize default highlight style

hlt consults $HOME/.hlt/config.yaml.

Colors

You can change highlight colors, background is none, charactor is red on by default.

background: none
charactor: green

Formats

You can change highlight formats, these formats are false on by default.

bold: true
hide: false
italic: false
strikethrough: false
underline: false

Install

# Instatll dep command
$ go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep
# Install this repository
$ go get -u -d github.com/x-color/hlt
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/x-color/hlt
# Install depended packages
$ dep ensure
# Build hlt command
$ go build ./cmd/hlt/

License

MIT License