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Old 12-21-2012
Gawk adding color
I want to know if there is any way to highlight search results using GAWK. So for example:

Code:
gawk '{IGNORECASE=1;} /^<a/&&/\$/' index.html
<a class=author href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/search/?areaID=10&amp;amp;catAbb=sss&amp;amp;query=ps vita" title="craigslist washington, DC | all for sale / wanted search &quot;ps vita&quot;">Craigslist Half Hourly Vista</a> <a href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/msg/3486749195.html" lang="en-us">Traveler Guitar (Fairfax) $250</a><div class="content">discount price online - is $380

My search results are not highlighted like using grep. Any ideas
Last edited by metallica1973; 12-21-2012 at 12:40 PM..
# 2  
Old 12-21-2012
Try this:-
Code:
gawk '{IGNORECASE=1;} /^<a/&&/\$/ { print "\033[1;31m:" $0 "\033[0m" }' index.html

# 3  
Old 12-21-2012
awesome,

but it highlights everything red. Is there a way that it will just highlight my search criteria like grep?
# 4  
Old 12-21-2012
You can specify which parameter or search criteria you want to highlight, here is an example:-
Code:
echo "red green yellow blue magenta cyan white" | awk ' {
 print "\033[1;31m" $1 "\033[0m";
 print "\033[1;32m" $2 "\033[0m";
 print "\033[1;33m" $3 "\033[0m";
 print "\033[1;34m" $4 "\033[0m";
 print "\033[1;35m" $5 "\033[0m";
 print "\033[1;36m" $6 "\033[0m";
 print "\033[1;37m" $7 "\033[0m";
} '

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