Colored FIND output?

UPDATE: I've added a new (different) script... Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams had a point: The question really asks for executable scripts are green, et cetera.. okay... you'll find such a (prototype) script at the end of this answer.

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This first (original) section is about grc and grcat.

This should work; grc... (as enzotib has pointed out.. The package name is grc ... The sub-utility used in the example, is grcat

generic colouriser for everything

generic colouriser, can be used to colourise logfiles,
output of commands, arbitrary text....
configured via regexp's.

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The following example prints

• ./ in magenta
• bin/cpp/ in cyan
• bigint in bold white

I haven't fully sorted out how it handles it config file yet, but this looks like it will do what you want (once you tame it).. eg. for a file with no sub-dir, and the color sequence seems to not be in the same sequence as the expressions.
I assume it is possible (but I'm a bit busy at the moment)...

echo "# my config file
regexp=(\./)(.*/)([^/]+)
colours=bold white,magenta,cyan
">$HOME/.grc/findhi

find . -maxdepth 3 -name '*' | grcat findhi

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Here is the new Ignacio inspired script :)

This works if you use a single path as the first arg to find.
There are UNTESTED issues in this script. It is only concept.
One issue is: Symbolic Links... murky waters...
As-is, it prints an ERROR when it encounters an unknown type (eg. a symbolic link), and then continues processing past that.
Thanks to enzotib for the tput examples.

dircol=$(tput bold ;tput setaf 4)
coloff=$(tput sgr0)

root="$HOME"       # define path here, not in 'find` arg
root="${root:-.}"  # default to '.'
root="${root%/}/"  # add trailing '/'
#
find "$root" -maxdepth 1 -name '*' -printf "%y %P\n" | 
  while read -r line ;do
    case $line in 
       d   ) printf "%s\n" "$dircol$root$coloff";;  
       d\ *) printf "%s\n" "$dircol$root${line:2}$coloff";;  
       f\ *) l="$root${line:2}"
             d="${l%/*}/"
             f="${l##*/}"
             cd -P "$d" 
             printf "%s" "$dircol$d$coloff"  
             ls --color=always -R1 "$f"
             cd - >/dev/null
             ;; 
          *) printf "ERROR - type not yet catered for\n";;  
    esac
  done 

You could use -exec to do most of that (my solution doesn't color the directory part differently). If you have -print in your find command, replace it by -exec ls --color -d; if you're using the implicit printing, add that. This assumes your ls supports the --color option.

find . -exec ls --color -d {} \;

This does only the two-color highlight for path and filename, not the per-filetype thing of ls:

Configure the colors of grep output in the right way for matched and unmatched part, and match the filename:

$ export GREP_COLORS="sl=0;33;49:ms=1;34;49"
$ find /etc/ -type f | head | grep --color=always '^\|[^/]*$'

You may not want to overwrite the variable GREP_COLORS, so set it only for grep:

$ find /etc/ -type f | head | GREP_COLORS="sl=0;33;49:ms=1;34;49" grep --color=always '^\|[^/]*$'

(Definitions trom the deprecated variable GREP_COLOR have less priority than those in GREP_COLORS)

For the color codes, see colortest-16 from the package colortest,
and section "Set Graphics Rendition" in ANSI terminal command sequences.