Logfile colorizer

Define Pygments lexer and color schema for eazyBI child and application log files.

Prerequisites

• Python

• pip (Python package manager)

  $pip -V   # check if you have it
  
  $sudo easy_install pip # install it if you don't have it
  

Set-up

• Install Pygments package

  sudo pip install Pygments
  

• Link .lessfilter file to your home directory

  ln -s $(pwd)/.lessfilter ~/.lessfilter
  

• Add the following to your .bashrc or .zshrc file

  ############### for less syntax highlight ###############
  # specify options that will be passed to less
  export LESS='-R'
  # specify input preprocessor for less
  export LESSOPEN='|~/.lessfilter %s'
  

• Install the python package contained in this repository.

  cd ../    # move up one directory from the setup.py file
  sudo pip install -e log_colorizer
  # -e option installs "in place" therefore allowing you to apply newest version by git pull
  

Additional information

You can change tokenizer and/or colors on the fly by editing __init__.py file You can use pygmentize log colorizer for other tools within shell. Main command to work with is

   pygmentize -f 256 -l loglexer -O style=logstyle -x my_file_name.log