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Colorize the output of any log with `ack` by piping to `colorize-log`
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colorize-log.zsh
function colorize-log {
colorize red ERROR | \
colorize yellow 'WARN(ING)?' | \
colorize green INFO | \
colorize white DEBUG | \
colorize white TRACE
}
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colorize.zsh
function colorize {
COLOR="$1"; shift
ack --flush --passthru --color --color-match="$COLOR" $@
}
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If you don't like my color choices, feel free to check out your options: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9625316/what-color-options-exist-for-ack-grep-for-colorization-of-output-logs-etc

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I wrote a blog post about this!

http://thoughts.al-the-x.me/post/148985003356/colorizing-log-output-from-google-appengine

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