Re: Printing in red during output from head

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 06:41:59PM +0200, lisa-asket@perso.be wrote:
> Have also tried to use `tput` but has not worked
> 
>     find "$fdir" -type f -name "*.org" -o -name "*.texi"  \
>       -exec head -n "$n" {} \+                            \
>       | sed -e 's/==>/$(tput setaf 1)==>/;s/<==/<==$(tput sgr0)/'

Command substitutions are not performed inside single quotes.  Changing
them to double quotes may work, but you'll need to double-check
everything else in the sed program to see whether it will work as
expected inside double quotes.