I've been using a tool for years that I find so handy that I can't believe nobody else has done it. Or, perhaps they have. The tool is called 'hi' and it's an optional part of this module, which is ostensibly the two Term::ANSIColor extensions: Term::ANSIColorx::ColorNicknames * some color nicknames, because the regular ANSI color names don't make sense to me. Term::ANSIColorx::AutoFilterFH * a special filtered filehandle that colorizes things as they pass