(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. -- Micah J. Cowan http://micah.cowan.name/
