Colorized 'svn diff' filter for terminals

Here's a quick script I wrote to add a bit of styling to 'svn diff' output so that it's easier to see where the changes are. Of course the basic code can be tweaked to match output from other programs that you care about.

- Unchanged text becomes italicized (in some terminals).

- Added text is black on a green background, removed text is red on a dark red background.

- Large begin/end markers are there to help when scrolling back; colorization won't work if you pipe to a pager like "less".

To use it, pipe the 'svn diff' output into the script, e.g. "svn diff [whatever] | /path/to/this/script".

Script:

  #!/usr/bin/env perl
  # by Kevin Grant (kmg@mac.com)
  print "\033#3BEGIN DIFF\n";
  print "\033#4BEGIN DIFF\n\033#5";
  while (<>) {
    if (/^\+/ && !/^\+\+/) {
      print "\033[48;5;149m", "\033[2K", "\033[38;5;235m", "\033[1m";
    } elsif (/^\-/ && !/^\-\-/) {
      print "\033[48;5;52m", "\033[2K", "\033[38;5;124m";
    } else {
      print "\033[3m";
    }
    chomp;
    print;
    print "\033[0m\n";
  }
  print "\033#3END DIFF\n";
  print "\033#4END DIFF\n\033#5";