[sf-lug] Fwd: stderr and stdout, merged in a single file, in different colors

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

This one is a weird question.  I wonder if anyone here has the answer
:-)  Regards...


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark K. Mellis <mkmlists at mellis.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Subject: stderr and stdout, merged in a single file, in different colors
To: uuasc at uuasc.org


Hi, Group,

Has anyone ever heard of a program that you can pipe stdout and stderr
into and it will write a log file that has the two streams
interleaved, but displayed in different colors?

One of my java programmers is asking for this. She seems to think it
is a normal part of the unix toolkit. I, of course, have never heard
of such a thing. Sounds like it would be interesting.

I saw a log viewer once that did something like it, but it sucked on a
number of file descriptors and colored each one a different color
using curses. It didn't capture the bits in a file, then play them
back in color at will.

...Mark

Mark K. Mellis
Http://www.mellis.com/~mkm
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