On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:00:04PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
| PS: I did see one working example at
| 
http://travelingfrontiers.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/how-to-add-colors-to-linux-command-line-output/
| sed ''/crit/s//$(printf "\033[31mCRITICAL\033[0m")/g''
| 
| However, it relies on the printf command, which means (1)launching another 
process and 2) not
| using sed's buffers, so I can't have a series of sed operations in one 
command.

I use something similar to this, also running an external command (echo). 
Here's an example, using the -e
sed command argument

function getinfo()
{
    DEV="$1"
    WHAT="$2"
    REGEXP="s,.*${WHAT}:\([0-9.]\+\).*,\1,p"
    ifconfig ${DEV} | sed -n -e "$(echo ${REGEXP})"
}

AFAIR I went through the same issues and apparently you cannot directly pass
variables to sed. If you feel thank you can do the same with (g)awk
instead, you can pass variables to it.
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