Hi,
On 2007-12-18 15:05 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:45:14PM +0100, roberto wrote:
>> is there any way to let the variables printed on screen by 'printenv'
>> to be coloured in order to be easily identified ?
>>
>> i have a large output and some variable is hardly recognized among the
>> value of the previous or the next ...
>>
>
> I don't see any way from the man page for /usr/bin/printenv nor from the
> bash man page. As I see it, you have two options:
>
> 1. Change the source for /usr/bin/printenv and its man page.
> Submit the changes as an enhancement.
>
> 2. Write a script to take the output of printenv (or that runs
> /usr/bin/printenv and captures the output), colourizes it as you
> wish and displays it.
Here is an implementation of 2., short enough to make it an alias :-):
printenv | egrep --color '^[^=]+'
Cheers,
Sven
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