Re: [PATCH] check: don't use multi-line coloring for the report

[Bert Wesarg]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 17:12, Stefano Lattarini
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Bert, and thanks for persiting on this.

only for today, I'm in vacation for the next two weeks ;-) But I try
to post a patch today.

> You could avoid the use of printf above by using the "automatic concatenation"
> feature of awk:
>  $ echo x y | awk '{print $1 s $2}' s=":"
>  $ x:y
> And now try this (the various "^[" represent the escape character):
>  $ red='^[[0;31m' grn='^[[0;32m' std='^[[m'
>  $ echo aaa bbb ccc | awk '{print red $1 grn $2 std $3 }' red="$red" 
> grn="$grn" std="$std"
> Works as a charm also with Solaris 10 /bin/sh and /bin/awk, and with NetBSD 
> 5.1 /bin/sh
> and /usr/bin/awk :-)

Argh, I should have known, Thanks for this. Than, I think we could
finish this today.

Bert

>
> HTH,
>  Stefano
>