On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 11:18 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 09:35:59PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > If a coloured ] is unimportant, I suppose you could use: > > > > tree --du -Fh whatever | grep --color '][[:space:]][[:space:]].*/$' > > You don't need to count spaces. Just '].*/$' would suffice. We already > know we want to start with the first ] character on the line, no matter > how many spaces follow it. > > I really question the usefulness of colorizing the directory names, > but since we're already this far down the rabbit hole, we might as > well light some dynamite to make the hole deeper. I'm sure it's safe! > > We're using GNU grep for coloring, so we can also use its PCRE syntax > to do "lookbehind" voodoo: > > tree --du -Fh /usr/local | grep --color -P '(?<=]).*/$' > > which means "start matching after a ] but don't include the ] in the > match".
Or use '\K' to cause previously matched characters to not be included in the match: tree --du -Fah . | grep --color -P '[^]]*] \K.*/$' (which required entirely too much RTFMing to learn about '\K') Regards, Lee
