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Martin Vegter
Martin Vegter

Reputation: 527

using console escape color codes in sed

I need to color lines that start with #.

I have following code in perl, which works fine:

echo 'aaa\n#bbb\nccc' | perl -pe "s/(#.*)$/\e[0;32m\1\e[0m/"

I am trying to do the same in sed, but it just prints the color codes, instead of the color:

echo 'aaa\n#bbb\nccc' | sed -r "s/(#.*)$/\e[0;32m\1\e[0m/"
aaa
e[0;32m#bbbe[0m
ccc

Why are the color codes not working in sed, and what do I have to do differently ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 63

Answers (1)

wef
wef

Reputation: 371

Use '\o033' instead of '\e':

$ echo -e 'aaa\n#bbb\nccc' | sed -r "s/(#.*)$/\o033[0;32m\1\o033[0m/"

Upvotes: 1

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