(03/10/2011 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>.
<snip> > 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. The idea intrigued me somewhat, so I hacked up a Perl script that attempts to do this (no guarantees of error-free code). Find it at http://micah.cowan.name/hg/demarcate/raw-file/tip/demarcate Set it to executable, and then try it out like: mkfifo out mkfifo err ./demarcate <some program> >out 2>err -- HTH, Micah J. Cowan http://micah.cowan.name/
