Re: Hightlighting in bash

[Micah Cowan]

(03/10/2011 12:27 PM), Philip Prindeville wrote:
> On 3/10/11 11:53 AM, Micah Cowan wrote:
>> (03/10/2011 11:42 AM), Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>> My request is simple.  Using termcap/ncurses info (which you need anyway
>>> for the readline stuff), it would be nice to have the option of running
>>> commands in a pseudo-tty and then bracketing the output from STDERR with
>>> <highlight on>...<highlight off>.
>> This doesn't strike me as remotely within the domain of responsibilities
>> that should belong to bash, mainly because:
>>
>>    1. it has nothing to do with anything that shells normally do.
>>    2. putting it in bash specifically, would rob other, non-bash related
>> commands, the possibility of having such a feature.
>>
>> It wouldn't be difficult to write as a separate program, which is really
>> how this should be handled. You could redirect a pipeline's STDOUT and
>> STDERR to individual named pipes (FIFOs), and have a separate program
>> read from both pipes, inserting highlights around any data it copies
>> from the STDERR pipe.
>>
> You could, but that would entail modifying every Makefile (a couple of
> hundred), plus automake, etc.

Nonsense. Just use shell redirections over the full command you're running.

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Micah J. Cowan
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