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COLORIT(1)                                                                                COLORIT(1)



NAME
       colorit - a script for markuping the text input

SYNOPSIS
       colorit [OPTIONS] [files...]

DESCRIPTION
       colorit is a script for markuping text input and sending a result to stdout.  Markuping rules
       are described in a configuration file which is filtered by preprocessor (the default is m4 ).
       The define HOME equal to your home directory is set for the preprocessor using -D option sup‐
       ported by both m4 and cpp.  This script can be used for colorizing the text  by  ANSI  escape
       sequences,  or making a simple text conversions and may be used for colorizing output of dict
       or other programs. In particular, log files, dict, cc, make, or diff  output  can  easily  be
       colorized and viewed.

OPTIONS
       -V or --version
              Shows version information.

       -h or --help
              Shows help information.

       -c file or --config file
              Specify configuration file.  The default is ~/.coloritrc or /etc/dictd/colorit.conf

       --pp preprocessor
              Specify a preprocessor (- for none).

FILES
       ~/.coloritrc
              User's colorit configuration file

       /etc/dictd/colorit.conf
              System colorit configuration file

CONFIG FILE
       Empty  lines  or lines beginning with sharp sign (`#') are ignored. All other lines have this
       structure: command arg1 arg2 ... argN.  All commands are processed one-by-one for each  input
       line.
       args strings can be surrounded by double-quote characters.
       Currently,  only  mark command is available having the following arguments: regexp pre_string
       post_string
       The pre_string and post_string are inserted at the beginning and the end of substring matched
       by regular expression regexp

BUGS
       The only supported escape sequence in the strings surrounded by double quotes is \033.

SEE ALSO
       less(1), m4(1), cpp(1), dict(1)



                                             28 Oct 2003                                  COLORIT(1)