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    I wasn’t intending to come off confrontational, I apologize for that. I was looking at this from it sounding like you wanted any command on a system. I did find that you can colorize man. see script below for an example. As for busybox, it is a small project, so colorizing just it would be relatively easy and easy to add as a patch to a system. Not sure if that would upstream though as it is intended to work well on low memory systems among others.


    #!/bin/bash
    
    export PAGER="less -r"
    export GROFF_NO_SGR=1
    export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m'
    export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;31m'
    export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m'
    export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m'
    export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;44;33m'
    export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m'
    export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;32m'
    
    man ls
    

    Edit: it does seem that this man colorization is disabled by default.

    Edit2: “export MANROFFOPT=-c” can replace “export GROFF_NO_SGR=1” to limit just man.

    Edit3: source Arch Linux bbs










  • Not everything uses groff. A lot will have their own function or another.

    Edit: I think for what you indicting you are wanting to try you’d need to either patch your shell of choice or write your own.

    Edit2: If you did patch it, the best way I can think of to get something upstreamed would be to patch bash to use CTRL-Enter to automatically pipe the output to the default pager defined in BASHPAGER followed by PAGER if it doesn’t exist. Then set the BASHPAGER to your “bat” command.


  • Or if you are lazy you could add “-h” as an option to said help command for when --help doesn’t work. Shouldn’t take to long to to make a list with a script that runs each command to with --help and logs it all to a file though. Then just go look for the ones that don’t like it in the log. Apparently bash has a builtin command named help, so a different name is probably better then.

    ls -1 $dir | while read line do echo “----------” $line --help |& >> logfile.txt done

    Just search in you favorite pager for “-----” and just hit “next” key.