Use soft, desaturated colors for variables that change often but aren't inherently good or bad: : IP addresses, domain names, or URLs.
To see your colors in action, you must assign the set to your current session or set it as a global default.
Performance considerations
: Strings are highlighted as soon as they appear in the terminal window. xshell highlight sets
Connect to a server and run:
can easily get lost in a sea of standard system messages. Manually scanning thousands of lines of text is not only exhausting but also prone to human error. The Solution: Visual Anchors Highlight Sets
When running mysql -e "SELECT * FROM huge_table" : Use soft, desaturated colors for variables that change
| Highlight Set Name | Use Case | Typical Rules | |-------------------|----------|----------------| | | Nginx/Apache logs | Status codes, SQL queries, PHP errors | | Security Admin | Auth logs, firewall logs | Failed logins, port scans, sudo commands | | Database Admin | MySQL/PostgreSQL | Slow queries, deadlocks, replication errors | | Kubernetes | kubectl get pods | CrashLoopBackOff, Pending, ImagePullBackOff | | Network Engineer | Cisco/Juniper configs | Interface up/down, BGP neighbor changes |
An Xshell Highlight Set is a collection of user-defined rules—based on keywords or Regular Expressions (Regex)—that tells Xshell to automatically change the text color or background color of specific strings appearing on your screen.
(Accepted|Failed) password for .* from
If just highlighting a keyword isn't noticeable enough, use a regex wildcard pattern like .*ERROR.* to colorize the entire line of the log entry, making it impossible to overlook.
Highlight any IP address on your screen to track network traffic origins. \b(?:[0-9]1,3\.)3[0-9]1,3\b Use code with caution.
Check this box if you only want to match the exact casing. Connect to a server and run: can easily
Use soft, desaturated colors for variables that change often but aren't inherently good or bad: : IP addresses, domain names, or URLs.
To see your colors in action, you must assign the set to your current session or set it as a global default.
Performance considerations
: Strings are highlighted as soon as they appear in the terminal window.
Connect to a server and run:
can easily get lost in a sea of standard system messages. Manually scanning thousands of lines of text is not only exhausting but also prone to human error. The Solution: Visual Anchors Highlight Sets
When running mysql -e "SELECT * FROM huge_table" :
| Highlight Set Name | Use Case | Typical Rules | |-------------------|----------|----------------| | | Nginx/Apache logs | Status codes, SQL queries, PHP errors | | Security Admin | Auth logs, firewall logs | Failed logins, port scans, sudo commands | | Database Admin | MySQL/PostgreSQL | Slow queries, deadlocks, replication errors | | Kubernetes | kubectl get pods | CrashLoopBackOff, Pending, ImagePullBackOff | | Network Engineer | Cisco/Juniper configs | Interface up/down, BGP neighbor changes |
An Xshell Highlight Set is a collection of user-defined rules—based on keywords or Regular Expressions (Regex)—that tells Xshell to automatically change the text color or background color of specific strings appearing on your screen.
(Accepted|Failed) password for .* from
If just highlighting a keyword isn't noticeable enough, use a regex wildcard pattern like .*ERROR.* to colorize the entire line of the log entry, making it impossible to overlook.
Highlight any IP address on your screen to track network traffic origins. \b(?:[0-9]1,3\.)3[0-9]1,3\b Use code with caution.
Check this box if you only want to match the exact casing.