Gary Johnson <garyjohn <at> spocom.com> writes: > > I'm afraid I don't understand the problem. Color _is_ enabled in > the new terminal. > > As an experiment/demonstration, I executed this command in my home > directory which happened to contain a text file, ls.out, in which > the word "out" appeared on a few lines. > > mintty -h a grep --color=always out ls.out > > The word "out" was colored in the new terminal just as I would > expect it to be. > > What command are you executing that has colored output when executed > at the command line but not when executed as an argument to mintty? > > Regards, > Gary > >
This is the command I'm using: tail -f /foo/test.log | perl -pe 's/error/\e[1;31;43m$&\e[0m/g' When I do the following there is no color: mintty -h a tail -f /foo/test.log | grep --color=always error Your command does work correctly (to color based on a grep command parent, rather than chained) but I'm not sure how to correctly modify it to use tail while still coloring the errors. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
