colerr
will wrap a given process and colorize it's standard error output.
colerr
is written in rust programming language and utilizes:
mio and mioco libraries. You probably don't care, but it's kind
of important so I've mentioned it here.
You need rust compiler bundled with cargo
. Then cargo build --release
should do the job.
Resulting binary will be in ./target/release/colerr
. Just copy it to somewhere to your $PATH
.
Usage:
colorout [--] <cmd>...
colerr
works by spawning a IO-handling child process that takes care of
colorizing output. The parent process exec
-s the requested command with
stdin
, stdout
and stderr
routed to a child.
This way colerr
can be used as a drop-in replacement, as the colerr
-ed PID
will be the PID of the wrapped command. All signals etc. will be handled by the
wrapped process itself, the only difference being a standard IO being handled
by additional child process.