Colorized output for syslog files?

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Colorized output for syslog files?

Opened this issue 2 months ago · 3 comments

thomas-j-adaptiva commented 2 months ago

Exactly as the title says. Tested on RHEL and Ubuntu, I don't see syslogs colorized.

Answer 1 · 2024-10-21T19:54:01.000Z

perhaps we don't have a syntax mapping by default for /var/log/dmesg. Try bat -l syslog /var/log/dmesg and see how that looks :)

Answer 2 · 2024-10-21T22:55:19.000Z

That works splendidly, thank you! Sorry about that!

Also a small bug, if you do a bat -l /var/log/dmesg with no option for the -l, it just hangs.

Thank you!

Answer 3 · 2024-10-23T16:19:41.000Z

Also a small bug, if you do a bat -l /var/log/dmesg with no option for the -l, it just hangs.

that's not entirely a bug :) bat is designed to behave like cat whereby if you don't specify a filename, it reads from stdin. So it is waiting for stdin to end.