Re: Printing in red during output from head

[Chris Elvidge]

On 21/07/2021 02:17 am, lisa-asket@perso.be wrote:
> I am using the following command to output the first n lines of matched files.
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> find "$fdir" \( -name \*.org -o -name \*.texi \)  | xargs head -n "$n"

How about:
find "$fdir" -type f -name "*.org" -o -name "*.texi" | xargs head -n 
"$n" | sed -e 's/==>/^[[01;31m==>/;s/<==/<==^[[0m/'

Where ^[ is escape (ctrl-v esc)

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Chris Elvidge
England