Labctl color reference ​

CLI command ​

The labctl color command allows you to run any normal shell command and add some color. Labctl will use regular expressions to search for text of interest in the output and can then highlight these using defined colors.

Usage: labctl color <cmd> ...

Add some color to any Linux command (i.e. ssh).

Arguments:
  <cmd> ...

Flags:
  -h, --help    Show context-sensitive help.

Global Flags
  -d, --debug=INT          Enable debug mode.
      --settings=STRING    Settings yaml file.

labctl: error: expected "<cmd> ..."

Example ​

labctl color ssh 10.0.0.1

Colors ​

Valid colors include: black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white. You can add the following prefixes to colors: hi - Highlight, fg - Foreground, bg - Background

Valid styles include: bold, faint, italic, blinkslow, blinkrapid, reversevideo, concealed, crossedout

You can see a list of colors on how they are displayed on your terminal by using the --test flag

labctl color --test

Labctl settings ​

You can provide your own color settings by creating ~/.labctl.yml and adding regex/color pairs under the colorize key

Labctl includes default settings, they are kept here in case you want to propose updates, below an extract from settings.

colorize:
  - regex: '\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+(/\d+)?'
    color: magenta
  - regex: "(?i)\b(true|valid|used)\b"
    color: hiwhite,bold
  - regex: "(?i)(false|none)"
    color: hired
  - regex: shutdown
    color: yellow
  - regex: '(?i)\b(error|down)\b'
    color: red
  - regex: '(?i)(\benabled?|\bup\b)'
    color: green
  - regex: "(?i)\bdisabled?"
    color: yellow

The setting are displayed when you run labctl color --test or when you add the debug flag labctl -d color ...