From 53fe4ba1da92892f5a76fdc51b699eeb6b808a3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 11:08:17 -0300 Subject: perf annotate: Introduce --stdio-color to setup the color output mode selection 'perf annotate --stdio' will colorize entries with most hits and possibly some other aspects of its output, but those colors gets suppressed if we redirect the output to a non-tty, allow keeping the colors by adding a new option, --stdio-color, now this use case will also output escape sequences for colors: $ perf annotate --stdio-color | more Based-on-a-patch-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sjrnixani5pg6qez640gaxhf@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation') diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt index 778f54d4d0bd..8ffbd272952d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt @@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ OPTIONS --stdio:: Use the stdio interface. +--stdio-color:: + 'always', 'never' or 'auto', allowing configuring color output + via the command line, in addition to via "color.ui" .perfconfig. + Use '--stdio-color always' to generate color even when redirecting + to a pipe or file. Using just '--stdio-color' is equivalent to + using 'always'. + --tui:: Use the TUI interface. Use of --tui requires a tty, if one is not present, as when piping to other commands, the stdio interface is used. This interfaces starts by centering on the line with more -- cgit v1.2.1