grc - frontend for generic colouriser grcat(1)
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Description
grc will execute command command with optional parameters [args] piping its stdout or stderr into grcat,
with appropriate configuration file.
Configuration file for grc is determined by /etc/grc.conf file.
Format of /etc/grc.conf: each entry consists of 2 lines, between entries there can be any number of empty
lines or lines beginning with # (comments)
First line is regular expression, second line the name of configuration file for grcat.
Configuration file after the first regular expression matching command[args] will be passed to grcat as
its configuration file
Name
grc - frontend for generic colouriser grcat(1)
Options
--help Show summary of options.
--version
Display version.
-e--stderr
Redirect error output. Unless -s is selected as well, this cancels redirection of standard output
via grcat-s--stdout
Redirect standard output. Used to redirect standard output together with --stderr option.
--colour=x
x is one of onoffauto--colour=on will colourise (default)
--colour=off will just execute command without colourising.
--colour=auto will test if standard output is a tty, and colourise only when it is.
See Also
grcat(1)
Synopsis
grc[options]command[args]
