regex-markup performs regular expression-based text markup according to used-defined rules. This can be used to color syslog files as well as the output of programs such as ping, traceroute, gcc etc. The hierarchal rules-format is simple to understand, yet very powerful. regex-markup is written entirely in C, and uses POSIX regular expressions to do much of its work.
For example, these rules can be used to color all lines containing `kernel: ' green, and in those lines the word `panic' red:
style green { pre "\E[32m" post "\E[39m" }
style red { pre "\E[31m" post "\E[39m" }
/kernel: (.*)/ {
green
/panic/ig { red }
}
Example rules for ping, traceroute, and syslogs are included.
regex-markup is written by Oskar Liljeblad, and is free software licensed under terms of the GNU General Public License.
2005-06-01: web page updated.
2005-05-22: regex-markup 0.10.0 released.
lstat64 when available (reported by Michal Fojtik).--help and --version in cacheline.config.h before everything else.The complete history of regex-markup can be seen here.
The latest version of regex-markup is 0.10.0, which was released on 2005-05-22:
Precompiled binaries are available for certain systems:
These files, as well as older versions, are available in the regex-markup file area.
regex-markup is mentioned on the following pages:
regex-markup is copyright (C) 2001-2005 Oskar Liljeblad.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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The source code of this project may contain files from other projects, and files generated by other projects, including:
Such files are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License or a license compatible with the GNU GPL (as listed on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html). See each file for copyright details.
The Swedish translations in the po directory may contain translations from other projects, including:
See the specific message file (PO file) for copyright of those messages.
The following programs are useful (but not required) when building regex-markup:
Bison (or Yacc)
For generating src/script.c if it hasn't been generated already.
The following programs are required to build regex-markup:
gcc 2.95 or later.
regex-markup uses some features specific to gcc 2.95 (such as macros with variable number of arguments).
The following programs are required for proper operation of regex-markup:
GNU libc6 2.0 or later
regex-markup uses GNU-specific extensions to the C library.
Installation
Compile regex-markup by running configure and then make. This should produce executables in the src directory, which can be used right away.
If you want to install the regex-markup on your system, run make install. This will copy the executables and the man pages into the appropriate directories (usually /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share/man/man1, respecively).
For further details regarding configure and make, see the INSTALL document.
Q: Remark prints this error when started
remark: Cannot allocate memory
A: Try recompiling regex-markup without the -O2 option, like this:
CFLAGS=-g ./configure ; make clean ; make
Please write me if that doesn't help.
regex-markup consists of two programs, remark and cacheline. The main program, remark, reads lines of text from standard in, highlights them according to certain rules defined by the user, and writes the highlighted line to standard out. It only takes one argument - a file containing the highlighing rules. The format of these files are described in the manual page of remark.
Examples:
ping www.yahoo.com | remark ../examples/rules/ping traceroute www.kernel.org | remark ../examples/rules/traceroute
The remark program supports the usual long option `--help' which displays usage and option information. A manual page which can be viewed with
man ./remark.1
is provided. (A manual page for cacheline, cacheline.1, is also provided.)
The cacheline program is used by the logwatcher example program to delay newlines in output. See the cacheline manpage for more details.
See the provided manual page, remark.1.
The latest version of regex-markup can be downloaded from
The author of regex-markup and this document, Oskar Liljeblad, can be reached via email:
Please send bug reports, suggestions, ideas or comments in general to me.
None at the moment.
Please see the TODO document.