when compiling some projects on linux terminal, I get usually a long output consisting of a lot of information. Usually this information is MONOCHROME. I wonder if bash can be modified somehow, so in all outputs or in some specific outputs (like from Makefile, etc) I can get different colors dependeing on, for instance:
make[1]: Leaving directory
or
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
etc.
Thanks
I found that in bash tput setf doesn't work. I found this commands for bash that are working well
handy tput commands
tput bold - Bold effect
tput rev - Display inverse colors
tput sgr0 - Reset everything
tput setaf {CODE}- Set foreground color, see color {CODE} below
tput setab {CODE}- Set background color, see color {CODE} below
Colors {code} code for tput command
Color {code} Color
0 Black
1 Red
2 Green
3 Yellow
4 Blue
5 Magenta
6 Cyan
7 White
tput is a great little tool with many other commands for controlling the terminal state and contents in shell scripting.Sure, just use Bash functions, like, say this one:
make()
{
pathpat="(/[^/]*)+:[0-9]+"
ccred=$(echo -e "\033[0;31m")
ccyellow=$(echo -e "\033[0;33m")
ccend=$(echo -e "\033[0m")
/usr/bin/make "$@" 2>&1 | sed -E -e "/[Ee]rror[: ]/ s%$pathpat%$ccred&$ccend%g" -e "/[Ww]arning[: ]/ s%$pathpat%$ccyellow&$ccend%g"
return ${PIPESTATUS[0]}
}
(Originally via Highlight Warnings in Make.)
You can do this portably by using the tput command and the terminfo(5) database.
For example,
tput setf 5
with terminal as standard out, will set the foreground color to purple (or something like it; I'm color blind). tput setf 0 resets the foreground color to the default.
For more information, look up terminfo.
It seem more like you want the colorized output from make(1). In that case, I'd recommend patches for gnu make from http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=make.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/color-v5.1 described on the ML: http://old.nabble.com/-rfc--Colorized-output-for-GNU-make--td32547742.html
