hl-regexp

Unix-like tool for highlighting a regular expression in text.

Building

Clone the repository and build the project using make.

git clone https://github.com/8dcc/hl-regexp
cd hl-regexp
make
# ...

You can install the program on your system with the install target.

sudo make install
# ...

For more information about the program, run it with the --help argument.

./hl-regexp --help
# Usage:
#   ./hl-regexp [OPTION...] REGEXP < INPUT
#
# ...

The following command can be used for highlighting TODO keywords. It might be useful along with my print-todos tool.

cat file.txt | hl-regexp "DE\(BUG\|LME\)\|FIXME\|HACK\|REVIEW\|TODO"

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src		src
.gitignore		.gitignore
LICENSE		LICENSE
Makefile		Makefile
README.org		README.org
hl-regexp-completion.bash		hl-regexp-completion.bash