h (hhighlighter is just a name to help search engines) is a really tiny helper script meant to highlight keywords in the output of another *nix command:

h is just a tiny facade in front of ack so you need to install it first.

What is ack?

ack is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers

Designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of source code, ack is written purely in portable Perl 5 and takes advantage of the power of Perl’s regular expressions.

see: http://beyondgrep.com/

ack installation

ack is part of many major linux distributions so you should use your package manager to install it.

see: http://beyondgrep.com/install/

If you want to install ack in a portable way ( at the end ack is just a script ) you do it in this way:

curl https://beyondgrep.com/ack-2.16-single-file > ~/bin/ack && chmod 0755 !#:3

h is implemented as a function in bash.

You can install it in one of these ways:

• copy and paste h() function in your ~/.bashrc

• configure your ~/.bashrc to load the external script with . /path/to/h.sh

or using Shinichi Okada’s Awesome Package Manager - https://github.com/shinokada/awesome - awesome -i paoloantinori/hhighlighter h

h has currently been tested only on bash and zsh on Linux and MacOSX.

h is meant to consume the output of another Linux command via pipe

These variables accepts a comma separated values set of Perl Term::ANSIColor configuration entries. For a table of RGB colors definition check this handy map:

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