I enjoy using UNIX/bash commands that support coloured output. Consequently, I have a few aliases defined which automatically enable coloured output of the commands that I know support this option. However, I'm sure there are hundreds of commands out there that support coloured output - I'd like to know what they are.
The ones in my ~/.bash_aliases
file are:
ls --color=auto
grep --color
phpunit --ansi
What else is there? Is there a list somewhere of all commands that support coloured output? Or better still, some command for grepping my local man pages and plucking out the appropriate command names.
Why don't you try:
That should search for the word color in all your man pages (content, not just headings).
It asks, for each man page, whether you want to open and view the page:
Inside each individual man page, you can use your normal search method (e.g.,
/color<ENTER>
) for finding the text. When done with a man page, just exit and it will continue searching.