-.TH COLORIZE 1 "2013-06-16" "colorize v0.51" "User Commands"
+.TH COLORIZE 1 "2017-07-16" "colorize v0.63" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
-colorize \- colorize text with escape sequences
+colorize \- colorize text on terminal with ANSI escape sequences
.SH SYNOPSIS
-\fBcolorize\fR [option] (foreground) \fIfile\fR
+\fBcolorize\fR [\fIoption\fR]... (\fIforeground\fR) [\fIfile\fR]
.PP
-\fBcolorize\fR [option] (foreground)/(background) \fIfile\fR
+\fBcolorize\fR [\fIoption\fR]... (\fIforeground\fR)/(\fIbackground\fR) [\fIfile\fR]
.PP
-\fBcolorize\fR \-\-clean[\-all] \fIfile\fR
+\fBcolorize\fR \-\-clean[\-all] [\fIfile\fR]
.PP
-\fBcolorize\fR \-hv
+\fBcolorize\fR \-hV
.SH DESCRIPTION
Colorizes text read from standard input stream or file by using ANSI
escape sequences (and also vice versa, i.e. cleaning text from sequences)
and prints resulting output to the terminal.
.PP
When colorizing text, (foreground) and eventually (background) may be either
-one of following color values: none, black, red, green, yellow, blue, cyan,
-magenta, white, default or random. First character of color name in upper
+one of following color values: none, black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta,
+cyan, white, default or random. First character of color name in upper
case denotes increased intensity, whereas for lower case colors will be of
normal intensity. If "none" is chosen, no escape sequences will be emitted.
.PP
safely extracted.
.PP
When de-colorizing text, \-\-clean omits color escape sequences which
-were emitted by colorize, whereas \-\-clean\-all omits all valid ones.
-If in doubt, consider using \-\-clean\-all.
+were emitted by colorize (see NOTES for list), whereas \-\-clean\-all
+omits all valid ones. If in doubt, consider using \-\-clean\-all.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
+.BR \-\-attr=\fIATTR1,ATTR2,...\fR
+set attributes by name
+.RS
+Attributes: bold, underscore, blink, reverse and concealed.
+.RE
+.TP
.BR \-\-clean
clean text from color escape sequences emitted by colorize
.TP
text color to be excluded when selecting a random foreground color
.TP
.BR \-h ", " \-\-help
-show usage screen and exit
+show help screen and exit
.TP
-.BR \-v ", " \-\-version
+.BR \-V ", " \-\-version
display version data and exit
+.SH NOTES
+The list of color escape sequence codes being emitted and omitted is
+as follows:
+.IP * 4
+30-37,39 (foreground colors)
+.IP * 4
+1-9;30-37,39 (foreground colors with attributes)
+.IP * 4
+40-47,49 (background colors)
+.IP * 4
+0 (reset)
.SH AUTHOR
Steven Schubiger <stsc@refcnt.org>