Re: Hightlighting in bash

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:49:27PM -0800, Micah Cowan wrote:
> When both stdout and stderr are the same tty, how do you expect to use
> this method to detect which text should be hilighted and which shouldn't?

Arrange so that's not the case.  Most likely by running something like

   magicthing make

where 'magicthing' is the wrapper program that sets up the FIFOs/whatever
and then executes make (or whatever's in argv[]) in that environment.