Printing in red during output from head

[lisa-asket]

I am almost there, but I am having the problom with the \e



    find "$fdir" -type f -name "*.org" -o -name "*.texi"  \
      | xargs head -n "$n"                                \
      | sed -e 's/==>/^\e[01;31m==>/;s/<==/<==^\e[0m/'
    

From: Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
To: Chris Elvidge <celvidge001@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Printing in red during output from head
Date: 21/07/2021 13:55:43 Europe/Paris
Cc: help-bash <help-bash@gnu.org>

shopt -s extglob dotglob globstar
gawk -f my_too_big_thing -v ml=5 **/*@(.@(texi|org))

btw for esc \33 or sometimes \e

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 1:48 PM Chris Elvidge <celvidge001@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 21/07/2021 02:17 am, lisa-asket@perso.be wrote:
> > I am using the following command to output the first n lines of matched 
> > files.
> >
> >
> >
> > find "$fdir" \( -name \*.org -o -name \*.texi \) | xargs head -n "$n"
> >
>
> How about:
> find "$fdir" -type f -name "*.org" -o -name "*.texi" | xargs head -n
> "$n" | sed -e 's/==>/^[[01;31m==>/;s/<==/<==^[[0m/'
>
> Where ^[ is escape (ctrl-v esc)
>
> --
> Chris Elvidge
> England
>
>