This colorize logs/output by finding regular patterns.

This is a fork of color, an open source program that allows to colorize console output eg. from compilation log, syslog or any other log displayed on UNIX console. It allows to define your own set of coloring rules, but comes with predefined ready to used schemes for gcc output, syslog, apachelog, etc. To see more, check /etc/colorlog.conf for information about defined schemes.

Either one of the following:

[some command] | colorlog [colorlog-scheme]
colorlog [some command]

$ cat /var/log/syslog | colorlog syslog
# or
$ colorlog syslog cat /var/log/syslog

$ cat /var/log/messages/ | colorlog

$ make 2>&1 | colorlog
#or, identically
$ colorlog make

GPLv3

color was unmaintained for 3 years and I wished to add some extra features. I renamed it to colorlog to make it easier to find (color being a generic name referencing many things and not only logs highlighting software).