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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# All my gist code is licensed under the MIT license.
# Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y542zPAPeG4
# colorcat
# - cats a file, but if any line contains N hex colors, it appends the colors
# (rendered as ansi escape sequences) to the end of the line.
# - input can be stdin, a file, or a hex color in plain text
if [[ "$#" -eq 1 && ! -f "$1" ]]; then
echo "$1"
else
cat "$@"
fi | while read -r line; do
colors=""
for word in $line; do
if [[ "$word" =~ ^[^A-Fa-f0-9]*#?([A-Fa-f0-9]{6})[^A-Fa-f0-9]*$ ]]; then
hex=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
r=$((16#${hex:0:2}))
g=$((16#${hex:2:2}))
b=$((16#${hex:4:2}))
truecolor="\033[48;2;${r};${g};${b}m"
reset="\033[0m"
colors="${colors}${truecolor} ${reset} "
fi
done
echo -e "$line $colors"
done
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@hrdkmishra hey that looks amazing!

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