grc (generic colouriser) grc provides two programs: grc and grcat. The main is grcat, which acts as a filter, i.e. taking standard input, colourising it and writing to standard output. grcat takes as a parameter the name of configuration file. To use, add following lines into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc: [[ -s "/etc/grc.bashrc" ]] && source /etc/grc.bashrc [[ -s "/etc/grc.zsh" ]] && source /etc/grc.zsh Or put the entire content of /usr/doc/grc-1.9/grc.bashrc-expanded example into these files.