🐳 dockolor – Colorized docker ps Output

dockolor is a lightweight plugin that enhances your docker ps experience with color-coded output based on container status. It also replaces common aliases like dps and dpsa if defined.

Features

• Colors container statuses:
  • 🟢 Up / Running — Green
  • 🟡 Paused — Yellow
  • 🔴 Exited / Dead — Red
• Preserves the original Docker ps output, just adds color.
• Replaces dps and dpsa aliases (from the docker plugin) with colored versions.
• Falls back gracefully if awk is not installed.

Installation

Oh My Zsh

Clone the repository into the OhMyZsh plugin directory:

git clone git@github.com:bouteillerAlan/dockolor.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/dockolor

Then add dockolor in you plugin list

plugins=(... dockolor)

Reload your shell:

source ~/.zshrc

Any other way

• Copy or clone the dockolor.plugin.zsh file
• Source it in your .zshrc or .bashrc
• Use the dockolor command in place of the docker ps command
• You can also add an alias, something like:

myalias() {
  dockolor "$@"
}

Reload your shell:

source ~/.zshrc

Usage

• dockolor — Same as docker ps, but colorized.
• dps — Replaced with dockolor_dps, same as dockolor or docker ps.
• dpsa — Replaced with dockolor_dps -a, same as dockolor -a or docker ps -a.