Color Logger

Make terminal output pretty

Install

Grab a copy

> curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nathanstilwell/color-logger/0.1.0/lib/color_logger.sh

And drop it in where you need

# import color logger
. color_logger.sh

Requirements

(one of these, see note below)

bash version 4.0+
zsh
ksh version ksh93t+

usage:

log [message] [-biuln] [-c color] [-k background-color]

options

  -b        text is bold

  -i        text is italic

  -u        text is underlined

  -l        text blinks

  -r        reverse formatting

  -n        do NOT add new line ("\n") after message

  -c  color
        format text with specified named color. See below for available colors.

  -k  background-color
        format text with background-color of specified name. See below for available colors.

Available Colors

Examples

# import color logger
  . color_logger.sh

# log a message in the default text color with default formatting
log "message"

# log a message in bold
log "message" -b

# log a message in red
log "message" -c "red"

# log a message in blue with a white background
log "message" -c "blue" -k "white"

# log a message in blue in bold and underlined
log "message" -c "blue" -bu

Logging diffent formatting inline with -n

log "usage: " -bn;
log "log" -un;
log " [-biulrn] [-c color] [-k background]"

would log

Notes

This script uses associative arrays which are not a feature in bash 3.x, which is the version of bash on OS X systems. In short, if you are running scripts on a mac you are going to have to zsh or ksh. Color logger has a zsh shebang.

nathanstilwell / color-logger